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rweilert

2016-01-15, 12:05 PM
Our forum had been left unused for quite some time and should be put to life again. Meanwhile, spammers have tried to register fake accounts, so there are around 17,000 unactivated users.

I tried to set Configuration, User Pruning, but to no avail. In the tasks, I set time to 11 when it was just 10 minutes away, nothing happened. Then tried 2 AM again, waited for a night, no reaction.

What have I missed?

Thanks for any hints!

Rolf

Destroy666

2016-01-15, 12:21 PM
(2016-01-15, 12:05 PM)rweilert Wrote: [ -> ]What have I missed?

Someone has to be online for the task to run. You can click on the clock icon next to the task name to execute it immediately.

rweilert

2016-01-15, 12:51 PM
(2016-01-15, 12:21 PM)Destroy666 Wrote: [ -> ]
(2016-01-15, 12:05 PM)rweilert Wrote: [ -> ]What have I missed?

Someone has to be online for the task to run. You can click on the clock icon next to the task name to execute it immediately.

Perfect! That was it. Thanks so much! Smile

Rolf

Abstergo

2016-01-19, 06:53 PM
I know you got this done but to avoid it in future, I would restrict the awaiting activation group's permissions even further. That way they will need to manually activate.

laie_techie

2016-01-19, 11:23 PM
I set up a cron job to hit my task.php every few minutes. My board is extremely niche, so there are hours with no hits
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