Support - News Aggregator Does not update news
Hi, I am using the news aggregator to publish news on my site from various feeds. The news items never update themselves. I have set some news feeds to update once in 24 hours and some once in 4 hours. I always have to manually update them by clicking Update Items. What could be causing this problem? Any help would be appreciated. Sudheer. S
On 8/25/07, Sudheer Satyanarayana <sudheer.s@binaryvibes.co.in> wrote:
Hi,
I am using the news aggregator to publish news on my site from various feeds. The news items never update themselves. I have set some news feeds to update once in 24 hours and some once in 4 hours. I always have to manually update them by clicking Update Items. What could be causing this problem?
Any help would be appreciated.
Sudheer. S
Do you have a cron job configured? (http://drupal.org/cron)
Cog Rusty wrote:
On 8/25/07, Sudheer Satyanarayana <sudheer.s@binaryvibes.co.in> wrote:
Hi,
I am using the news aggregator to publish news on my site from various feeds. The news items never update themselves. I have set some news feeds to update once in 24 hours and some once in 4 hours. I always have to manually update them by clicking Update Items. What could be causing this problem?
Any help would be appreciated.
Sudheer. S
Do you have a cron job configured? (http://drupal.org/cron)
Thanks for the information. I have now setup a cron job using cPanel on the server. I hope this solves the problem. I will keep the list posted. --Sudheer. S
Quoting Sudheer Satyanarayana <sudheer.s@binaryvibes.co.in>:
Hi,
I am using the news aggregator to publish news on my site from various feeds. The news items never update themselves. I have set some news feeds to update once in 24 hours and some once in 4 hours. I always have to manually update them by clicking Update Items. What could be causing this problem?
Any help would be appreciated.
You need to setup http://drupal.org/cron Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/ -- http://give-me-an-offer.com/
Thanks Earnie and Cog, I did set up Cron jobs using the cPanel menu. It fixed the problem. I did not have access to lynx and wget on my account on the server. I had to use php in my cron jobs. I'm using the below line in my cPanel Cron Jobs menu: 45 * * * * /usr/bin/php /path/to/drupal/cron.php With Warm Regards, Sudheer. S www.binaryvibes.co.in Earnie Boyd wrote:
Quoting Sudheer Satyanarayana <sudheer.s@binaryvibes.co.in>:
Hi,
I am using the news aggregator to publish news on my site from various feeds. The news items never update themselves. I have set some news feeds to update once in 24 hours and some once in 4 hours. I always have to manually update them by clicking Update Items. What could be causing this problem?
Any help would be appreciated.
You need to setup http://drupal.org/cron
Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/ -- http://give-me-an-offer.com/
On 9/1/07, Sudheer Satyanarayana <sudheer.s@binaryvibes.co.in> wrote:
Thanks Earnie and Cog,
I did set up Cron jobs using the cPanel menu. It fixed the problem. I did not have access to lynx and wget on my account on the server. I had to use php in my cron jobs.
I'm using the below line in my cPanel Cron Jobs menu: 45 * * * * /usr/bin/php /path/to/drupal/cron.php
I am surprised that this command works, since it does not refer to any particular site URL, but hey.
With Warm Regards, Sudheer. S www.binaryvibes.co.in
Earnie Boyd wrote:
Quoting Sudheer Satyanarayana <sudheer.s@binaryvibes.co.in>:
Hi,
I am using the news aggregator to publish news on my site from various feeds. The news items never update themselves. I have set some news feeds to update once in 24 hours and some once in 4 hours. I always have to manually update them by clicking Update Items. What could be causing this problem?
Any help would be appreciated.
You need to setup http://drupal.org/cron
Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/ -- http://give-me-an-offer.com/
-- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
On 9/1/07, Cog Rusty <cog.rusty@gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/1/07, Sudheer Satyanarayana <sudheer.s@binaryvibes.co.in> wrote:
Thanks Earnie and Cog,
I did set up Cron jobs using the cPanel menu. It fixed the problem. I did not have access to lynx and wget on my account on the server. I had to use php in my cron jobs.
I'm using the below line in my cPanel Cron Jobs menu: 45 * * * * /usr/bin/php /path/to/drupal/cron.php
I am surprised that this command works, since it does not refer to any particular site URL, but hey.
Also, I am surprised that it does not give you path errors about './includes/bootstrap.inc' because of the current working directory from which it runs cron.php, but as I said... nm.
With Warm Regards, Sudheer. S www.binaryvibes.co.in
Earnie Boyd wrote:
Quoting Sudheer Satyanarayana <sudheer.s@binaryvibes.co.in>:
Hi,
I am using the news aggregator to publish news on my site from various feeds. The news items never update themselves. I have set some news feeds to update once in 24 hours and some once in 4 hours. I always have to manually update them by clicking Update Items. What could be causing this problem?
Any help would be appreciated.
You need to setup http://drupal.org/cron
Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/ -- http://give-me-an-offer.com/
-- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
On Friday 31 August 2007 16:14:35 Sudheer Satyanarayana wrote:
Thanks Earnie and Cog,
I did set up Cron jobs using the cPanel menu. It fixed the problem. I did not have access to lynx and wget on my account on the server. I had to use php in my cron jobs.
I'm using the below line in my cPanel Cron Jobs menu: 45 * * * * /usr/bin/php /path/to/drupal/cron.php
If, for whatever reason, that ends up not working for you, there is a module called Poormanscron that will help out: http://drupal.org/project/poormanscron -- Jason Flatt http://www.oadaeh.net/ Father of Six: http://www.flattfamily.com/ (Joseph, 14; Cramer, 12; Travis, 10; Angela; Harry, 7; and William, 12:04 am, 12-29-2005) Linux User: http://www.xubuntu.org/ Drupal Fanatic: http://drupal.org/
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