Email Notification

Email Notification

by Carolyn Tan -
Number of replies: 5

Hi -

I have a question on setting up email notification.
Server 1 http://www.kreativestudios.com/wbt

has cron tab management. And when I run the address as suggested by moodle: I get this 

Server Time: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:22:02 -0600


Starting activity modules
Finished activity modules
Running backups if required...
    Checking backup status...INACTIVE
Backup tasks finished.
Cron script completed correctly
Execution took 0.112479 seconds
I am using Moodle 1.4 and testing out which of the 2 servers managers the program better. 
Thanks for any input or info. 



                        

    
    
    
                            
    
    
                                

                                        
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                                        In reply to Carolyn Tan
                                        
Re: Email Notification

                                        

                                            by Jeffery Watkins - 
                        

                                

                
                                        

                                        

                            

                
                            

                
                                

                                    

                                        
Carolyn,
As for question 1, what e-mail address is used for the Admin User?  I had this problem before... same circumstances, and found that when I change the Admin email address to something I knew to work, everything worked fine.
I do not know why... or if this was even really it... but it worked for me.
Question 2:
no idea.
but, if you lookup your two sites using whois.sc you will see that site #1 only has 3 others on its server, while site #2 has 425... this will probably make a difference in how Moodle performs.
Hope this helps.
Jeff

                                    

                
                
                
                                        
                
                
                                            

                                                    
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                                            by Carolyn Tan - 
                        

                                

                
                                        

                                        

                            

                
                            

                
                                

                                    

                                        
Jeff,
Thanks for the info - I just changed to email address and see if anything happens - I tested email - I have not received anything yet. 
I wonder if there is a PHP script that we can use for the config files. I have contacted the support for server 1 to see how I can edit the cron tab? NOt sure if it has to do with that. 
Server #1 Appolo hosting.com cost more than server #2 (icdsoft.com). I guess you get for what you pay for.

                                    

                
                
                
                                        
                
                
                                            

                                                    
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                                            by Jeffery Watkins - 
                        

                                

                
                                        

                                        

                            

                
                            

                
                                

                                    

                                        Do you have cpanel with server 1?

You can manually do it by being logged in as admin and going here with your browser:

www.yoursite.com/admin/cron.php

Jeff


                                    

                
                
                
                                        
                
                
                                            

                                                    
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                                            by Carolyn Tan - 
                        

                                

                
                                        

                                        

                            

                
                            

                
                                

                                    

                                        
Jeff,
Yes I have added that in. I just noticed that the notification did come in. But they came in  in sections of either hours. I received a whole batch of emails at 2.00pm and then anothet batch at 8.00pm tonight. I wonder what is causing that. It does not seem to happen in moodle.org.
Have you encountered that?
Carolyn 

                                    

                
                
                
                                        
                
                
                                            

                                                    
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                                            by Jeffery Watkins - 
                        

                                

                
                                        

                                        

                            

                
                            

                
                                

                                    

                                        
Your cron job is probably set to run every 6 hours... Martin runs his every 5 minutes or so.
before you go to 5 mins... check with your server admin.  I'm not sure how many resources running that file causes... I would think not alot, but I am no expert.
Jeff

                                    

                
                
                
                                        
                
                
                                            

                                                    
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