cron activation

[kirk]

Hi Everyone

Please can somebody help me as I need to have my cron jobs set up so that they are automatically activated.

I filled out all the relevant info in the cron jobs section but they still don't work. Do these need to be activated from support admin???

I'm running an articles script which collects important information for alzheimers disease sufferers so I really need crons to work automatically to collect up to date articles for me!

I will be running the same software with additional domains so I need automatic cron activation to be permanently set up on my account.

Does anybody have any info ar advice on this.

Would greatly appreciate any feedback.

Kindest Regards

Kirk

PS. The article script is called Automatic Content Publisher. If anybody else has used this, I'd appreciate your experiences.

[tnas]

I have no experience with "Automatic Content Publisher" but a year ago there was quite a security problem with WGET use with CRON, causing it to be disabled at least for a time, if not permanently. At this time, it was suggested to use CURL instead of WGET. Searching the form for "CRON" or "WGET" will show you the discussion history on these items. I have been using CURL in a CRON job for over a year now with no problems.

What is the command line you are using in CRON?