Magento

How do I actually activate cron in magento?

Seconded!

I think I need cron for newsletter sending and sitemap generation.

I think!

S.

You will need to edit your crontab and add similar line:

could you possibly go further on this? ... not entirely sure where to edit the cron.php file?

thanks

jac31885 ,

What they are saying is that you need to add an entry to your cron tab that runs cron.php every 5 minutes.

This can usually be done in your hosting control panel.

~Tbone

If your host uses cPanel, there’s a cron manager in there that’s pretty self-explanatory. Otherwise, SitePoint has an introduction to cron article that might be of some help:

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/introducing-cron

i have set up the cron job now ... thanks for that ... but i get an error report saying:

Could not open input file:
/home/aronline/public_htm/relaxrestandplay.com/store/cron.php

jac31885 - 07 May 2008 11:24 AM

i get an error report saying:

Could not open input file:
/home/aronline/public_htm/relaxrestandplay.com/store/cron.php

Have you tried setting the permissions to 777 on it?