[drupal-support] Using Crontab For Aggregator

[Rob]

I have tried the command line several ways:

00 * * * * http://www.cmlhope.com/drupal/cron.php

and

0,15,30,45       *       *       *       *       wget -q 
http://www.cmlhope.com/drupal/cron.php

This the error message I am getting back now.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cron Daemon" <root at venus.nswebhost.com>
To: <rob at rwneill.com>
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 10:00 AM
Subject: Cron <cmlhope at venus> 00 * * * * 
http://www.cmlhope.com/drupal/cron.php


> /bin/sh: line 1: 00: command not found





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "puregin" <puregin at puregin.org>
To: "Rob" <rob at rwneill.com>
Cc: <drupal-support at drupal.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 1:00 AM
Subject: Re: [drupal-support] Using Crontab For Aggregator


> Hi Rob,
>
>      I understand (more of) your situation now.  On my systems, I use 
> something
> similar to the following line as a crontab entry
>
>
> 0,15,30,45       *       *       *       *       wget -q 
> http://www.example.com/cron.php
>
> This says to run the 'wget' command to fetch the indicated web page. 
>  The -q
> flag tells wget to discard any output ('quiet mode').   The command is
> executed at the top of the hour and periodically at 15 minute intervals,
> every hour, every day.
>
> Theoretically, this should also alert you by e-mail if your site is down
> for some reason (though if the cron daemon is running on the same machine
> as the web server, it may also be out of action)
>
> Djun
>
> On 6 Jul 2005, at 10:04 PM, Rob wrote:
>
>> The hosting server uses CPanel with a feature called Standard Cron
>> Manager. It asks for:
>>
>> Command to run:
>>
>> It then asks for hourly, daily, etc. on the job to be done. I am able to
>> manually refresh the news
>> feeds on aggregator but it will not do them automatically. I have tried
>> using various command lines
>> such as  00 * * * * but none have worked. I get error messages by email 
>> from
>> the server saying "No such file or directory". I am trying to figure out
>> what to put in the command line box that will access the right area to
>> automatically update the aggregator.
>>
>> Rob
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "puregin" <puregin at puregin.org>
>> To: <drupal-support at drupal.org>; "Rob" <rob at rwneill.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 4:07 PM
>> Subject: Re: [drupal-support] Using Crontab For Aggregator
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On 6 Jul 2005, at 12:15 PM, Rob wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have been trying to get Crontab to work on my site http://cmlhope.com
>>>> but
>>>> none of the commands
>>>> listed in the help section have worked. I am trying to set it to 
>>>> refresh
>>>> external news feeds X number
>>>> of times a day.
>>>
>>> You need to provide more details.    Is cron.php being run? (check your
>>> logs)
>>> If so, your problem is not with cron.
>>>
>>> Are there error messages in your Drupal logs or in system log files? 
>>> Are
>>> you
>>> able to get the news feeds manually?
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Could someone suggest what command would work best on this?
>>>>
>>>> Rob
>>>
>>>
>>> Djun
>>>
>>
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