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Title: Dailymail not running
Post by: admin19 on January 26, 2008, 05:24:12 am

Hi,
    I have read as much as I can on this but appear to have the following issue:
Dailymail runs perfectly if I manually start it.
But if I don't it just seems to sit there, and doesn't fire off the email sequence.
I am assuming it should register that it has run on the:
Last Dailymail execution:
Friday, January 25th, 2008 at 2:28pm (+45s) PST

even if it is not sending out a sequenced email on that particular day.
Any clues on why it doesn't fire everyday on its own?
Regards Steve

Title: Dailymail not running
Post by: DW on January 27, 2008, 05:34:57 am

Hi Steve,

If you have set up a dailymail cron task as described (http://www.listmailpro.com/help/dailymail_cron.html) in the help files and it is not working, your host may have disabled access to the system utility /usr/bin/wget.  An alternative (http://listmailpro.com/forum/index.php?topic=957.0) could be available.  For best results simply ask your host about the possibility of setting up a cron task to visit a URL each day.  They may have a recommended way of doing it on their server(s).

Regards

Title: Re: Wget
Post by: admin19 on January 29, 2008, 06:26:24 am

Hi Dean,
            I'm trying everything! The guys at Lunarpages suggested that this may work:
php /home/yourusername/public_html/scripttoberun.php
It didn't seem to function, I got this:
------------------------------------

Status: 404
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.7
Content-type: text/html

No input file specified.

-----------------------------------
Regards Steve

Title: Re: Dailymail
Post by: admin19 on January 29, 2008, 06:30:35 am

Hi Dean,
           The "curl" method seems to be working (once at least)
So I will keep my fingers crossed that it continues to do so.
Thanks Steve

Title: Re: Dailymail
Post by: admin19 on January 30, 2008, 01:09:15 pm

Back to square one, it worked once and that was all.
Any further suggestions?
Steve

Title: Dailymail not running
Post by: DW on February 05, 2008, 12:37:34 am

Steve,

You will have to ask your host if there might be a copy of "wget", "curl" or an alternative such as "fetch" or "GET" available to you.  (Basically, we need to grab a web page each day)  Their answer will ensure you have the correct settings for your server.

Regards