By tylerc66 on

I am having a problem getting the cron to run automatically. I contacted Media Temple and they said they do not help with cron issues. they sent me this article http://www.interspire.com/content/articles/5/1/An-Introduction-to-Cron

I would be willing to pay some one to show me how to do this. maybe via skype?

please post your email and how much you want for this service. thanks.

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Eshilon Design Inc’s picture

Eshilon Design Inc commented

We work with MT closely and have plenty of dv servers with cron running great. I'm happy to help for free- just email me at chris [at] eshilon.com.

Thanks,

Chris Winn
Eshilon Design Inc
www.eshilon.com

KHofmeyer’s picture

KHofmeyer commented

Chris,

Doing a search on how to get cron working on a mediatemple dv server through plesk, if found this post. I did as the instructions say, but it seems as if I am not getting cron to run. I was hoping you are able to help. I have cron set up with the following:

Minute: 15

The rest are set with *

I then have the command line - /usr/bin/lynx -source http://domainname.com/cron.php

Thanks,

Kyle

Arman.mt’s picture

Arman.mt commented

Hi there!

You can also get lots of help from our User Forums at http://forums.mediatemple.net/. Gotta be a customer to get in, but it sounds like you already have that base covered. :)

Best,

Arman Z. - (mt) Media Temple, Inc. - http://www.mediatemple.net/

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Hotlikecold commented

For a cron job to run every 15 minutes of every hour of every day, of every week, of every month, of every year, you would need to input

15 in the minute tab
* in the hour tab (* = asterisk)
* in the day tab (* = asterisk)
* in the month tab (* = asterisk)
* in the year tab (* = asterisk)

and /usr/bin/lynx -source http://YOURDOMAIN.com/cron.php in the command line.

So it will look like this after.

15 * * * * /usr/bin/lynx -source http://YOURDOMAIN.com/cron.php

That is what the Chris at Eshilon told me. And, I think it works.

http://newsmediamagazine.com/

rbishop’s picture

rbishop commented

i get a 404 when i to this. similar to http://drupal.org/node/318656
but none of that is helping me

is it possible i need to allow access to the file in my htacces ?
does the default htaccess deny public visits to the /cron.php ?

anyone else ran into this problem?

Nathaniel’s picture

Nathaniel commented

Example:

curl --compressed --silent http://##.##.###.##/cron.php

Every ten minutes looks something like this:

*/10	*	*	*	*	curl --compressed --silent http://##.##.###.##/cron.php

replace ## with your servers ip address.

bryanhidalgo’s picture

bryanhidalgo commented

http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/82/Using+Cron+on+a+%28dv%29+Dedicate...

dariusa’s picture

dariusa commented

I don't know if you want something more complex or server side or you are not looking for a module, but here is what I use a good amount of the time:

http://drupal.org/project/poormanscron

Just throwing it out there...