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How do I actually activate cron in magento?

 
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Seconded!

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

I think!

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

*/* * * * /absolute/path/to/php5 -/absolute/path/to/magento/cron.php
*/5 means that magento’s cron processor will be invoked every 5 minutes - can be fine tuned.

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

thanks

 
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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.

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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

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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

 
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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?

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