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I would like to disallow users to promote content (mainly forum posts) to the front page. Is this possible? If nothing else, can I set the default status for the "Promote to front page" box to be unchecked?

I'm trying to set up a block that has RSS updates of my del.icio.us bookmarks. I have a module called cronplus (and have also tried poormanscron) to update the links every hour. However, this doesn't seem to be working. I went into administer >> aggregator and it says "0 seconds left" under "Next Update." If I click the update items, that updates the links and resets the timer.

Is there something obvious that I'm doing wrong? Thanks for your help.

PS: I'm sort of a drupal newbie, so please bare with me.

Is there a way to have drupal automatically create multiple RSS feeds based on criteria that I supply? I am starting a new video podcast and I want to have seperate feeds for different media types (H.262, Xvid, mp3, etc.), but creating them by hand is not ideal. Is there a way to have drupal do this for me?

Thanks,
Aaron

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My hosting company provides the following script for automated MySQL backups run every day using cron.

I think the script is fine and does it job but can anyone comment on the usefulness of this for a drupal database backup? I am thinking particularly about the advice in the handbook to be logged in as admin, turn off all modules except core and set the theme to bluemarine before making a typical backup.

In other words, if I want to restore a drupal site using a backup generated by the following script, will it work?

Hi - I'd like to leave a welcome message that has no date of author on the homepage.

Is this possible?

thanks

I've got some scripts that build nodes from plaintext files. The files, unfortunately, have linebreaks in bizarre places. Drupal handles the paragraphs correctly when converting to HTML, but I would like to remove entirely the piece that converts linebreaks to '
' tags.