Post installation

I'm a newbie with Drupal and haven't got a lot of UNIX experience either. However I managed to configure cron jobs via the shell:
45****/usr/bin/wget -0 - -q http://www.mysite.com/Drupal/cron.php
Unfortunately whenever I check the cron job settings it says something like this:
"Cron is running. The last cron job ran 1 week 5 days ago"
Now, is cron running or not? Shouldn't it run every hour according to my code or did it just run once? Any ideas what went wrong?

I have run into a problem with taxonomy. What I want is to list certain blog postings by their category. What I experience is denied access to anonymous/unregistered users.

Is there a better technique for displaying posts? Perhaps by node type? I have found a php snippet for displaying by node type, but it only lists titles and I want to display multiple nodes on a single page.

I am trying to set up my new production server. Porting over a working dev version from another box. Dumped the MySQL tables, imported on new server, and copied over all the files. I can log into Drupal fine, all my old data is there, etc. The problem is when I try to create a new post, be it a page or story. I can create the post, but the attachment fails. I can see the attached file in the temp directory on the server, so I know its made it that far, hoever there is no entry in the files table, nor does the file get copied over to the drupal files directory.

Wow that's a long title...

Well that's the question: is it possible to let users create their own terms (categories) and then be the only ones who see them in the content creation form.

I ask this because I want the user to create a basic category and then add content to it. But I don't want other users to be able to add content to categories that they have not created.

So for example I have a category My familly and then I add one node per familly member. It would not make sense if every one that want to add a "familly member" node as other choices that it's own familly (famillies). This example is not the best cause having 'my families' does not need to have so many categories.

Let's say I have a travel site an I want users to create some pages of souvenirs about their trip. I would like the person to submit a new term/category like for example: "my trip in spain". Then the person could add nodes for each city she visited for example. All nodes related to his trip in spain would be in the My trip in spain "category/vocab" , which in return would only be available under her profile, and of course in the Spain, category.

Is this way of letting people adding content a little crazy?

Would it be best if I simply let people tag content and the select the country? Or maybe user nodereference so all nodes related to his/her trip to spain are linked together??

I am interested in letting my users authenticate of my ldap server. I just did my first trial and it lead to a bunch of questions.

1) What does the module mean "LDAP group" when it's talking about assigning roles based on ldap group?
2) When I try and log in as a user who has an ldap account but not a drupal account, it refers to me as an external user. What does this mean?
3) When I try and login in with LDAP, it fails:

Has anybody had a problem where their site works fine if nobody is logged in, but if the primary user logs in, the front page shows a page not found error and all of the menus are not displayed? I have not had this problem ever and as of less then 24 hours everything was working fine. Could this be a problem with my hosting company? Unfortunately the site is not yet live so I do not have an example to show. Any help would be appreciated.