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Hello guys,

Today i have enabled all tasks from my task manager!

Eg - thread view, hourly and daily clean ups, sitemaps, weekly database backups and tables check

I had no problem while activating these tasks. But while activating database backups and tables check tasks, i got one warning or confirmation pop up that 'are you sure you want to enable cron job' something like that

So now i just want ask that is it harmful for database ? Or my database will crash coz mostly abv tasks will be running at 12 AM ..

So need your suggestions ... Thanks!

You mean you received this error message?

WARNING: You are about to enable a task that is only meant to be run via a cron

Basically, this means that MyBB can't run this task through the task manager, and needs a cron job setup on your server to run the task.

The only way to realistically tell what impact it will have is to wait and see - take a full backup 5 minutes or so before, and see what happens. It's almost impossible for us to tell!

Opps ... Then theres no point enabling them ?

lolz .. no no i m not going to take any risk *ROFL*

ive encountered same problem with u..

Me ? ahem ahem talking to me or task manager

Okay jokes apart well ... then wot did ya do ?

All you need to do is activate the task in the task manager, then create a cron job to run when you want it to run in your cPanel, or similar software.

When setting up a cron job, enter this as a the path:

php the/file/system/path/to/task.php x

Where x at the end is the task ID you want to run, and replacing the/file/system... with the path to the task.php file.

Hey thanks a lot !