By Ryan Sullivan on Tuesday, 25 August 2015
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I am trying to setup cron job for a feed, but it does not work and I need to import it manually

I entered

/bin/curl -O /dev/null "http://benton.k12.ia.us/index.php?option=com_easyblog&task=cronfeed"; >/dev/null 2>&1

any advice for what changes need to be made, my hosting provider had me add the curl...

thanks
hey Ryan ,

Can you provide us with your Cpanel access so we can check for the cron command is it setup correctly?
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Tuesday, 25 August 2015 11:30
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Yes Please See detaills
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Tuesday, 25 August 2015 19:03
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Hi Ryan,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply. I've made some modification with your cron command in Cpanel but for some reason when I put my email address inside the cron email for cron notification, I did not receive any email from your server hence I am not able to confirm whether the cron is working correctly or not. Can you verify it for me and see how it goes?
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Wednesday, 26 August 2015 19:36
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I added my email address successfully I have not gotten an email indicating it has run...
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Wednesday, 26 August 2015 20:13
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I made a slight modification, and I did receive the email see details for results
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Wednesday, 26 August 2015 20:19
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An update on the external site occurred the cron job ran and did not import.... I manually ran the test import and it puled over.
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Wednesday, 26 August 2015 20:23
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Hey Ryan,

I am really sorry that delay of this reply,

I've help you changed to use following cron command and I can verified this cron command is set up correctly now :

/usr/bin/wget -O /dev/null "http://yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_easyblog&task=cronfeed"


By the way, I notice you set `0` from the cron time interval, then I help you changed to 5 minute auto run cronjob in your server.

Then I also noticed this RSS feed URL ( http://mrzsbobcatupdate.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss ) seems like already import all the post in your site, because when I manually run import from backend, it seems no any new post import now.

Can you try setup 1 more RSS feed URL in Easyblog feed importer then set the Cron Interval similar as I shown you on below screenshot and see is it will auto import these feeds in your site.

Keep us updated then the result.
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Wednesday, 26 August 2015 23:58
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