struggling with my crontab - newbie

By splarky on 5 Sep 2002 at 16:55 UTC

I am not having much luck with my crontab. Does anything look obviously wrong that I've done:

- the crontab file:

00 * * * * /htdocs/www/drupal/scripts/cron-lynx

- the cron-lynx.sh file (this file is chmod 700):

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/lynx -source http://www.biptron.com/drupal/cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1

- the cron.php file:

// $Id: cron.php,v 1.15 2001/11/01 11:00:46 dries Exp $

include_once "includes/common.inc";

/*
** If not in 'safe mode', increase the maximum execution time:
*/

if (!get_cfg_var("safe_mode")) {
  set_time_limit(180);
}

/*
** Iterate through the modules calling their cron handlers (if any):
*/

foreach (module_list() as $module) {
  module_invoke($module, "cron");
}

Thanks,

--Art

Comments

the crontab entry obvisiously

ax commented 6 September 2002 at 12:58

the crontab entry obvisiously should be

00 * * * * /htdocs/www/drupal/scripts/cron-lynx<em>.sh</em>

note the .sh at the end. this has changed with the 4.0 release but not yet propagated to the handbook.

didn't work

splarky commented 7 September 2002 at 00:55

Thanks for your help. I made the change and it didn't work unfortunately. The main thing I'm gauging crontab success with is hourly updates to my newsfeeds (BBC & the Guardian) which are not updating.

I'm having this problem too :-( Pls help....

nyquist commented 1 October 2002 at 19:43

My cron entry looks like this :

# Drupal hourly cron call for news feed update
00 * * * * /export/home/public_html/drupal/scripts/cron-lynx.sh > /dev/null

My cron log shows this for every hour :

CMD: /export/home/public_html/drupal/scripts/cron-lynx.sh > /dev/null
root 3602 c Tue Oct 1 19:00:00 2002
root 3602 c Tue Oct 1 19:00:01 2002
CMD: /export/home/public_html/drupal/scripts/cron-lynx.sh > /dev/null
root 3724 c Tue Oct 1 20:00:00 2002
root 3724 c Tue Oct 1 20:00:00 2002

I'm assuming this means it worked ok? i.e. no errors or warnings. Can anyone help me get this going??

TIA
C.W.

P.S. I've become a drupal junky in only a few days - a very nice piece of work