Setting Cron for RSS Feeds

[Jacksplat]

I've searched here all week, I give up and hope someone can tell me what I need to know or direct me to a thread that's discussed this before.

I have RSS Feeds on my forum, I update them manually in the update feeds 3 times a day. I know I can put this in a cron job but have never messed with cron before. There is a cron option in my cpanel and there is a cron job in my vbulletin admin panel. I need to know which of these I should use, and what would the command be in either. An example of the command would rock. The example can contain any url for the feed, I can replace it with my own.

Thanks in advance.

Jack

[TMM-TT]

I have a similar problem here. I have some RSS-feeds too, but none of the news from those feeds gets updated at all even if there are new articles available. It's like vB never reach the feed.

[noppid]

Are you talking about something like this posted daily with a different topic for each day?

http://www.riderinfo.com/forums/f33/
http://www.cpurigs.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=12

[TMM-TT]

Are you talking about something like this posted daily with a different topic for each day?

http://www.riderinfo.com/forums/f33/
http://www.cpurigs.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=12
Something like that. :)

I have tracked down my problem to the rssposter.php located under includes/cron. In some very strange reason, the $itemdata->save()-routine doesn't work as it should. I still don't know why but the articles from the feeds won't be posted in the forum as threads at all - only when I do it manually, and it's not always it work that way either.

[noppid]

Could it be that it's not running under a proper userid when croned?

[TMM-TT]

Could it be that it's not running under a proper userid when croned?
I found a hook that stopped my user to do posts with links -
"Cyb - Advanced Permissions Based on User's Post Count
Forum/Thread Permissions". Must be a bug, since the linkthingy was disabled. Quite embarrasing, I tried to find this problem for a couple of hours now. :D

[noppid]

Good catch. Stuff like that can be a headache!

[Mikecp421]

Sorry for reviving an old thread, but I wasn't able to find anything new that helped, and this is pretty much my exact problem....

I'm having the same issue with the RSS Poster feature--it will work, and the posts will show up when I manually reset and then run the RSS Poster scheduled task, but it will not run on its own. I can go in and look at the preview, and it is updating correctly, but for whatever reason the posts don't show up on their own as they are supposed to. I have checked the Forum Permissions for the users the posts are supposed to appear under, and they are set correctly--there is nothing I can see that would keep them from posting. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions on how to troubleshoot this? Thanks

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Anything in your Scheduled Tasks log? Is the task running at all?

[Mikecp421]

The feeds are updating as they should, but I don't see that the RSS Poster robot has worked at all since I manually ran it yesterday.

Here are my settings for the RSS Poster robot scheduled task:

varname rssposter
Title RSS Poster Robot
Description .......
Log Phrase Inserted the following {1}
Day of the Week *
Day of the Month *
Hour *
Minute 27
Acitve (Y)
Log Entries (Y)
filename ./includes/cron/rssposter.php
product vbulletin

[Greek Wizard]

I have had the same issues for a year.

I had given up on this for 9 months, but I am back to trying to fix it.

I hope something comes up soon.

[Mikecp421]

Bueller???

Anyone have any tips/info to share on this topic? Someone has to have experienced this and found a fix, or the source of the problem....