How to start cron on linux

How to start cron on linux

by Sreelakshmi Rao -
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I have problem in my scheduled backups, when I tried to view http://www.mysite.com/moodle/admin/cron.php I got  this error

  • Zero Sized Reply

Squid did not receive any data for this request.

I have 1.3 version of moodle running on my machine.

Any help and how to start cron, should i edit cron.php to enable scheduled backup running.

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Re: How to start cron on linux

by Bill Bimber -
I think cron does that when it's working correctly.  The installation directions -step nine- tell you how to set up cron for linux. I'd set up cron, and schedule a backup in a few minutes. Wait a while, then check your backup files. If it backed up on schedule, cron is working.
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Re: How to start cron on linux

by Lindsay Magnus -

I'm having a similar problem where one of my courses is not being backed up. The others seam to work fine. I tried to do a backup manually and got the "Zero Sized" error

I'm running 1.4.4 on linux

Cheers

Lindsay

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Re: How to start cron on linux

by Wen Hao Chuang -
We ran into a similar issue on one of our testing site, and doing the following steps helped:

1. Clearing the squid cache seems to fix it (see http://drupal.org/node/202579)

2. According to this discussion thread, sometimes it might be related to DB overload (http://drupal.org/node/142684)

3. Sometimes this is caused by server issue, try to clean up your temp folder, as it might have reached its capacity.

Hope this helps...

Wen
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