Right I set the rssfeedposter task to run every minute of every hour of every day of every month and it seems to do it like every so often with huge gaps inbetween, now the feed I run updates very fast and I can't make the how many it posts at a time any bigger so I need the task to run more often but it doesnt work.
You can use cron instead. The wiki states on how to do that.
I get the first bit for creating the shell script, but where does the cron bit go?
If you use cPanel, the set the command to:
php /home/user/public_html/task.php x
and change the settings to run every minute.
cmod +x ~/forum_backup.sh
crontab -e
# in the crontab editor, enter a CRON expression like:
0 4 * * * ~/forum_backup.sh # run the backup every day at 4am
So I added this to task.php
Now how would I turn this: 0 4 * * * which makes it run every day at 4am, to every minute?
Simply change it to * * * * *.
Thanks
Is everything right, I added:
cmod +x /rssfeedposter.sh
crontab -e
# in the crontab editor, enter a CRON expression like:
* * * * * ~/rssfeedposter.sh # run the backup every day at 4am
To task.php
And created rssfeedposter.sh with this in it:
now=`date +%Y-%m-%dT%H-%M` ; mysqldump -u ******* --password=*********** --skip-opt --add-drop-table --complete-insert --create-options --disable-keys=FALSE --extended-insert=FALSE --lock-tables --skip-set-charset --skip-comments --dump-date *************** > $now.sql ; zip -m $now.zip $now.sql
Thanks Again
Huh? You can't run bash commands like that. To do that you need access to the server.
Plus the commands you've written down will backup a MySQL database, not run the feed poster.
Huh I've followed the instructions and that's the end result. What have I done wrong? What do I need to do?
Edit: it seems to run, it is doing what it says, it's posting the feeds.
Ah forget that it doesnt work, the task happened to work for once reight after I'd added this but now it hasnt worked :X
Ah forget that it doesnt work, the task happened to work for once right after I'd added this but now it hasnt worked :X