[drupal-support] Using Crontab For Aggregator

[puregin]

On 8 Jul 2005, at 9:47 AM, Rob wrote:

> 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

This looks to me as if  you are submitting a line from your crontab 
file as input to your shell (/bin/sh).

The crontab entry should be present as a line in your crontab.   If you 
are trying to set this up from the command line, you would normally use 
the command 'crontab' to do this.  Crontab will start up a text editor 
which will let you enter the line.  It checks for correct syntax and 
then modifies the file. See the Unix manual pages for crontab for more 
details.

If you are using a web interface, it will likely have a form which will 
let you specify  the command to execute, and the periods for which you 
wish the command executed.  In this case the command would consist of 
only the last part of the crontab line 'wget -q http:// ...'

The error message is also telling you that you typed '00' rather than 
'0 0', which may or may not give you the result you expect, depending 
on your system (and your expectations :)

Djun