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I've resolved the issue, for anyone who might have Qualms following the instructions on this board or can't find the right Information, here's precisely what I did.

To get EI to work

1. Un-Installed 3.8, and installed 3.7.1 Patch Level 2
2. Installed EI Mod, 2.6.1 beta
3. Added the patch on POST #843 here; https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...51222&page=57;


To make the Cron run every 3 minutes, and output to a logfiles
Followed the instructions here;
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=898

A bit more explanation Using Centos 05,

1. Created a file forumread.php in my home directory, to hold the php code (Code 1 on the above link)
2. Created a file forumread.cron in my home directory, to hold the command line script (Code 2 on the above link).
Added a line which, everytime the cron runs, writes into the file 'cronlog.txt', stating the date and time the cron last ran.
Here's an extract of my forumread.cron file;

#!/bin/bash
# load forum home page and read cron.php
/usr/local/php/bin/php /home/username/runcron.php
date +"EI Cron ran on%t %D At %T"%n >/home/username/cronlog.txt
exit 0

- went to my crontab home page, and created a new cronjob to access and run 'forumread.cron'
'cd /var/spool/cron'
'crontab -e'
'*/3 * * * * /home/username/forumread.cron

(My crontab is eddited using vi edittor, so to save the above change, typed ':wq')

Everything works well so far.
Thanks to Toivo and Cyrix.

Good luck.
Ciao