[drupal-support] Cron Indexing question

[Larry Garfield]

Honestly, unless you're running a very active site, I'd skip setting up cron 
and use the poormanscron module from contrib.  It works like a charm for me.  
After each page request, the module checks to see if cron needs to run, and 
if so, runs it itself.  Quite useful.

On Tuesday 20 September 2005 07:27 pm, Grand Junction wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to get the cron.php up and running on my
> new installation of Drupal.  My main purpose in this
> is to index the site for searches.
>
> I've managed to execute the cron.php file successfully
> via http://sitename/cron.php.  But setting it up via
> the Cron Job manager with my host has been difficult.
> The host is using cPanel X, generally great, and I've
> managed to get a Cron Job working using a Perl script,
> but for some reason it isn't working on cron.php.
>
> What was suggested by the host is that I set the file
> permissions to 755, and then set the cron command to
> "php /home/location/of/file/cron.php", which I've
> done, and I know I have the correct location of the
> file (since I was able to execute the Perl script),
> but it just won't index the site (checking that
> through the Administer->Settings->Search page).
>
> Any suggestions out there?
>
> Many thanks,
> Matthew O'Malley
>
>
>
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