By hitmann on

I know absolutely nothing about cron jobs and UNIX, although I've read what cron jobs purpose is.

my Admin panel is saying that cron jobs must be set up and the help documentation ain't that informative.

Could you help me out? What exactly do I have to input?

And what is "File system"? I mean, what do they mean by "File"?

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broham’s picture

broham commented

I believe you can find your answers here...

Configuring cron jobs
http://drupal.org/cron

Lots of good information here on the drupal.org site

hitmann’s picture

hitmann commented

So i just copy this

45 * * * * /usr/bin/lynx -source http://example.com/cron.php

or this

45 * * * * /usr/bin/wget -O - -q http://example.com/cron.php

then i'm good to go?

broham’s picture

broham commented

That's just an example...

This would have a browser (lynx or wget) visit your cron page 45 minutes after every hour. (At the start of the hour your site may receive a lot of traffic from other sites aggregating your content via RSS. So running your cron job earlier helps the job avoid that traffic.)

You should follow the instructions that are applicable to your installation.

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hitmann commented

Alright. What does "MAN" stand for in cron MAN? And where can I find those cron MAN pages?

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mauror commented

"man" is the Unix command used to display documentation about commands and other things, You can find the man page for cron online here: http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?cron+8 (It is just the first place that came out from google...), you will also need http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?crontab+5 for the format of the crontab file.

If you wan to know what man is you can look for http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?man

Actually if you are going to host your site on a Unix machine, then you should really spend a little time studying Unix...
There is a lot of free documentation on the web, just do a google search for "Unix Beginner's Guide" and/or "Linux Introduction", you will find plenty of informations. The Linux Documentation Project has a lot of Docs and Links you can start with...

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.carey commented

You could simplify things and just install the poormanscron module.

Also, the "File system" thing, if I understand correctly what you mean, is referring to a "files" folder that is not created upon installation. This is the folder that will be used to upload and download files, ie. images. Create the folder "files" in the main directory and make it writable. You can change its public/private settings at 'administer > site configuration > file system'. Drupal's "File system" is set at 'public' by default.

Cheers,
Carey

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hitmann commented

Thank you mauror and Carey, this is very helpful and nice of you. I didn't know it would be that exhausting to install Drupal, there are so many stuff you have to learn before getting it to work. I would have never beleived it would be more energy-consuming than installing phpBB MODs

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.carey commented

Hang in there. There's a lot to learn, and it takes time. It'll get easier with knowledge and experience.