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ListMailPRO Email Marketing Software Forums => General Help & How-To => Topic started by: carl1 on August 31, 2004, 08:09:41 am
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I have tried it several ways and nothing:
1. using SSh via the vi editor I copy and past the line of code but the "15 1 * * *" part never copies over?
2. creating a text file and then entering "crontab filename" command to install. If I use the "crontab -l" it shows that it's scheduled but nothing happens?
3. coping the a text file with the code into the cron.daily folder (supposed to run at 4am every day). There are other files in that cron.daily folder that run everyday??? I don't get it.
What is up? I have wget installed and I can see other crontab commands are running on my server.
Honestly, I knew nothing about cron before I read the help of ListMail so any help or advice with details would be great!!!!
thanks
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check with your host if you have wget. if don't have wget, you may use lynx as... usr/path/lynx -dump http://mywebsite.com/mail/dailymail.php?pw=yourdailymailpass>dev/null
place the above directly in your crontab or have your host do it for you.
I hope this helps. This how I made mine work.
good luck
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I do have wget. Now what?
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It is recommended that you type "cron howto" into Google and read a bit about cron. Perhaps you could practice scheduling a simple dummy command, like the following, to become familiar with the process.
0 0 * * * /bin/true