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Newsgroup Manager query. [message #161744]

Tue, 02 February 2010 14:26

newbie.john
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I am wanting to mirror FUD forum posts to/from a newsgroup. The Newsgroup Manager suggests that posting to/from an NNTP server requires one to have..

(1)a PHP binary (cgi/cli).

How do I find out if I have that ? Surely I must have a PHP binary if I installed FUD ?

(2)..a crontab that will import messages...

It looks like I can setup a cron job in cPanel. Am I right in thinking that I need to create a file and have it accessed by the cron command every "x" minutes ? The file being called nntp.php and be placed in the /home/user/fudforum/scripts/ directory ?

Regards, John.

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Re: Newsgroup Manager query. [message #161745 is a reply to message #161744]

Tue, 02 February 2010 14:43

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1) You need to ask your hosting provider if it's installed and if so, in what directory.

2) nntp.php is already in the forum's scripts directory. CRON is just a scheduler that will periodically run it.

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Re: Newsgroup Manager query. [message #161750 is a reply to message #161745]

Tue, 02 February 2010 21:53

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naudefj wrote on Tue, 02 February 2010 09:43

1) You need to ask your hosting provider if it's installed and if so, in what directory.

Okay. Thank you. I will do that. Smile

naudefj wrote on Tue, 02 February 2010 09:43

2) nntp.php is already in the forum's scripts directory. CRON is just a scheduler that will periodically run it.

The file is there ? Great ? That makes things much easier. All I need is to put the path in a cron job ? Eg.

http://mydomain/forum/fudforum/scripts ?

or something like..

*/2 * * * * /home/forum/forum/scripts/nntp.php 1 ?

I don't know what */2, or the asterisks are for, or why there is the number "1" at the end

Regards, John.

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Re: Newsgroup Manager query. [message #161759 is a reply to message #161750]

Wed, 03 February 2010 06:11

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Yes. The format is explained here.

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