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Ok im pretty sure i understand a cron job is actually a job that acours at a certain time but for the life of me i cant find any in depth instructions on actually setting one up. Originally i came across cronjob in the gsmap zip file i found here for setting up a google sitemap and it called for running it as a cron job since then ive done some searching on the site and i can only find very little on cronjob , am i overlooking something or can someone help a newbie out?

The cron utility on Unix/Linux systems can run scripts and programs according to specifications in your local crontab file.

If you have a Unix/Linux based server and you can telnet onto it, you can type

man crontab

at the command prompt for instructions.

Or you may want to visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crontab .

Some administrators may have a preferred front end in place for setting up crontab files through a user control system like cpanel.

Some administrators may have limits in number or frequency of jobs a user can run.

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"A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking."--Steven Wright

Is there a idiot friendly gui for cronjobs in geeklog? i access my site via ftp and im pretty much a linux idiot.

I don't think so. Maybe someone more knowledgeable knows of a hack.

Many hosting services provide one if they allow corn jobs. I think you should check with your administrator or look through any user's gui services provided by your host.

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"A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking."--Steven Wright

I looked at gsmap.

If set up correctly, the cron job is actually emulated by Geeklog without much from you.

gsmap requires editing lib-custom.php.

The best way would be to take the appropriate section from the gsmap file,

add_to_lib-custom.php,

and add to lib-custom.php .

But remove the duplicate function line from the "add_to" code either by overwriting about line 90-92 in lib-custom.php:



or by leaving out the above code, including beginning and ending brackets, when copying from the gsmap add_to file, then carefully pasting between the opening and closing brackets in the above lines.

That sets up the job through Geeklog.

The job interval is set in the Geeklog config.php .

The line is



That interval will have to be set way down to work on a site without heavy traffic as it will be checked only in close proximity to a visit.

I don't use gsmap. Maybe someone else knows more about it.

These indices for Google don't require cron:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=68255&package_id=67932

and

http://www.geeklog.net/filemgmt/index.php?id=128 .

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"A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking."--Steven Wright

Thanks ook i somewhat got it going, i spent a few hours this morning trying to figure out why the sitemap job didnt seem to be working and it wasnt putting out errors , just when i was getting to pissed off for words i looked in my public_html directory and it was there. In my config file i have my path set to www.sitename/geeklog/public_html/ so thats the directory it put it in. I was looking in the top directory of the site, i need to mod this line



so that instead of the path_html it goes to the top directory of the site, plus i submitted the sitemap to a google sitemap validator and i got an error about the urlset and schema so i guess ive got more work to do .

Google kicked back everything on my sitemap so i thought i would try the pluggin you sent me a link for called Enhanced Site Index 1.2 . Well now i get a sql error of



I think at this point im going to either shoot the computer or maybe the idiot operating it ( oh yeah thats right im the idiot )

Enhanced Site Index doesn't work with the current version of Geeklog (as you found out). I have a modified version I can post if you want but I took out file management, Calendar, and the link portion since I don't use these plugins on my site. The Enhanced Site index is very basic and doesn't check what you have installed plugin wise (i.e. if the file management plugin is not installed it still tries to bring up the info and errors out).

I've been meaning to update my site indexes. Maybe, when I have time, I'll create a plugin for this (to make things easier) and incorporate the Google sitemap hack in as well.

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OK, I installed gsmap and got it working with validation errors.



You shouldn't change anything in your Geeklog config file if Geeklog is running correctly.

If your Geeklog directory setup is standard, public_html is the top directory regarding public access and that is correct.

On installing sitemap.xml, you should have created a directory ~/geeklog/system/custom .

In that directory should be the file, phpblock_gsmap.php . (It should be readable, -rw-r--r--)

Line 45 of that file should read

$GSMAP_CONF['sitemap_name'] = 'sitemap.xml';

--assuming you have standard directories and you made an empty file in public_html named sitemap.xml .

Be sure you have put the following line as its own block of code somewhere in lib-custom.php:

require_once "custom/phpblock_gsmap.php";



Is it throwing errors because the file is empty, or have you checked the xml with your browser?

Make sure sitemap.xml is readable and writable (-rw-rw-rw-) .

For purposes of testing, crank the cron interval in config.php way down to a 3 or 4 seconds or something. Then be sure to visit your site, then pause, when testing.

Don't leave config.php like that!!!

Check against this topic:

http://www.geeklog.net/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=53850 .

(I can only handle one thing at a time. :shock: )

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"A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking."--Steven Wright

How odd. I did a GL version test after reading that.

I like enhanced site index and am having no problems.

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"A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking."--Steven Wright

My bad, I thought their was an issue with the newer versions of geeklog. You do need to have the File Management plugin (the same with Calendar and Links Plugins) installed for it to work or it will error out like above.

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Ook the problem with the sitemap i got generated was it was missing www. in front of all of the pages it indexed. I got to looking and only the main page of my site shows as www. and all the rest are just http://sitename.com/xxx . if you put www. in the urls it still works fine but everything i created with geeklog is missing the www is this normal? Also laugh i dont have filemangment pluggin installed so thats probably my problem with. I might install it just to see how it works and see if i like it.


So many pluggins and so little time

In your config.php, you need to set $_CONF['site_url'] to 'http://www.whatever....' if you want the www to always show up.