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@venus.nswebhost.com To: rob@rwneill.com Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 10:00 AM Subject: Cron cmlhope@venus 00 * * * * http://www.cmlhope.com/drupal/cron.php
/bin/sh: line 1: 00: command not found
----- Original Message ----- From: "puregin" puregin@puregin.org To: "Rob" rob@rwneill.com Cc: drupal-support@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 usesomething 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@puregin.org To: drupal-support@drupal.org; "Rob" rob@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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