Ticket : Can cron job run more often than every 15 minutes? #L3GFF-71E

Can cron job run more often than every 15 minutes?
Status: Solved
ID: L3GFF-71E
My host only allows 20 emails to be sent per minute. Therefore I have set my maximum emails per task to 19. I set up a cron task on ijoobi to run every 15 minutes, which works, but takes many hours to get through our 2000 subscribers.

I have tried setting up the cron task on my server using various examples found here, but I keep getting errors. Host is lunarpages, using cpanel.

Author: echobrin
Created: 4 February 2010
Elapsed: 3 Years 3 Months

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Hi Amy, Unfortunately 15 is the lowest frequency you can get at ijoobi.com, if you need to send more mails I suggest getting a cron service from your host, but some hosts do not offer cron, please verify to them. Thank you. Kind regards, kon	Replied: 4 February 2010 Response: 2 Hours 41 Minutes
I'm having trouble getting the cron task to work on my server. I think it may be due to the parameters in the URL. I found an old thread on this topic and tried the solutions suggested but couldn't quite get it working: http://www.ijoobi.com/component/option,com_agora/Itemid,60/id,3481/p,1/task,topic/ What are those strange AA characters at the end of the code on the above page? Has anyone else gotten the cron task working on a server than can't handle the parameters in the URL? I am unfortunately stuck with this host for another year so I need to find a way to make it work. Otherwise it will take literally days for one newsletter to go out if I can only send 20 emails every 15 minutes. Any suggestions would be appreciated.	Replied: 5 February 2010 Response: 18 Hours 17 Seconds
Hi Amy, Have you checked and tested the command lines here? Have tried using this command in your command line?: wget -q -r -nd --delete-after 'http://www.yourdomain.com/index2.php?option=com_acajoom&act=cron' Thank you. Kind regards, kon	Replied: 5 February 2010 Response: 5 Hours 9 Minutes
Thanks for the suggestions. wget did not work. I tried a lot of variations and finally found something that seems to be working. I'll include it here in case it might help someone else in the future: /usr/bin/curl -s -o /dev/null "http://www.mydomain.com/index2.php?option=com_acajoom&act=cron"	Replied: 5 February 2010 Response: 3 Hours 6 Minutes
Hi Amy, Thanks for confirming and adding your solution, I will make this ticket sticky so that other customers with the same host(lunarpages) and are having problems with their cron can use command line you've provided. Have a great day. Kind regards, kon	Replied: 8 February 2010 Response: 2 Days 6 Hours

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