[drupal-support] Feeds aren't updating

[Rob]

I have never been able to get feed updates to work on any sites. I have 
tried dozens of crontab commands and they never do update. I don't know if 
it is a bug in Drupal or what causes it.

Because I have dozens of news feeds on some sites it is too time consuming 
to manually do it but I did find a workaround of my own that has worked so 
far. I downloaded a link checker program that automatically checks links. I 
am using REL and there are other similiar programs. I entered the update 
link to all of my news feed in the list of links to be checked for each site 
like this

http://yoursite.com/?q=admin/aggregator/update/26

Several times a day I open the link checker software and it "checks" all of 
the links for each site and that updates the news feeds. So far that has 
been the only solution I have found on how to update news feeds without 
doing each manually. It only takes a few seconds to update the feeds using 
link checker software for each site.

Rob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Dondley" <sdondley at dondley.com>
To: <drupal-support at drupal.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 10:44 AM
Subject: [drupal-support] Feeds aren't updating


I'm having a very strange problem with my feeds.  I have 3 total.  The
first one updates fine.  The other two don't update at all (one of
them is Slashdot---http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf---which I know
probably works).

When I click "update items", I don't get any error.  But the "last
update" and "next update" say "never" and zero items show.  Both urls
are fully qualified.

How is it that 1 feed can get updated fine while the others do not?


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