By Soultrance on

I installed the New Aggregator module a few weeks ago (the version I installed matches my drupal version) and everything works fine. I can add sources, it pulls from sources and displays everything proplery, however, the update feature doesn't work. I have it set to update every 15 mins yet it isn't updating, yet I can manually update each feed, though I don't want to have to do this everyday. Any ideas?

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hpn commented

Have you set up the cron jobs to update the feeds? Read this if you haven't:
http://drupal.org/node/23714

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Soultrance commented

I don't actually have access to any of that, as far as I know. My site is hosted by a friend of mine and I don't have full access to everything.

However, I read a bunch of articles and such and when I tried to go to my cron.php (http://soultrance.r30.net/a2z/drupal/cron.php) to update it (I think thats whats it's supposed to do), I get:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: check_plain() in /usr/share/drupal/includes/xmlrpc.inc on line 67

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Maniac8888 commented

Wow, that is too bad. Cron is an important function to Drupal. RSS is only one of the applications that depends upon the cron functionality.

I've never tried this but it might work for you:

http://drupal.org/project/poormanscron

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Soultrance commented

I've tried that and CronPro (I think that was it?), but neither seemed to make a difference.

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Maniac8888 commented

Since cron is so instrumental in not just Drupal but other CMS applications (not to mention RSS), I'd look around for another ISP.

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jt6919 commented

The poor man's cron module works pretty good. I used it for a month until I got my normal cron working.

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Soultrance commented

I tried using that and the CronPro module, but both of them return the error above (an the error actually stays at the very bottom on my site with either of them installed).

When I have neither of them installed and go to my cron.php file I get the same error, however without CronPro or PoorMansCron installed the error message doesn't stay at the bottom of the page.

I've got a really good ISP, it's my friend who does hosting and web design professionally and he knows his stuff. The only downer is he just recently moved, so I hope he gets to me email fairly soon to see if he can help me out.

Thanks for all the help so far folks, if anyone has any other suggestions or would possibly know whats causing the error, please let me know what you think. I'm willing to try just about anything that won't destroy my site or isp :P

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Soultrance commented

YAY! My super hero host managed to get it all fixed up and working all perty for me now, woohoo!

Thanks for all the suggestions folks, much appreciated.

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