Quote Originally Posted by fvb View Post
I have had a cron job running for a few months now, and it worked great

GET 'http://www.shoepeddlers.com/googlefroogle.php?feed=yes&upload=yes&type=products' > /dev/null 2>&1

The file created was shoepeddlers_products.xml and all product were listed

My hosting company switched to a new server
the difference is
apache 2 as compared to 1.3.9
more cpus
more ram
more speed and better security
and a new version of cpanel

now the cron would not run untill I changed it to use “WGET”
now it runs, but it saves the files to shoepeddlers_.xml and no products are listed
the contence of the files is just this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:g="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0">
<channel>
<title>Shoe Peddlers</title>
<link>http://www.shoepeddlers.com</link>
<description>shoepeddlers</description>

I’ve been work with the hosting company, but we can’t seem to figure it out.

Any suggestions please
Following up on this cron job problem: I have the same thing with the output file in /feed. It just creates myfilename_.xml instead myfilename_products.xml exactly as described in the quote. Now I checked my google base account and the file lists as successfully uploaded by the cron at the specified time and products were inserted. Strange, but somehow it still works even if the local file does not get created the way I expected, the upload of ALL products worked.

wget works for my cpanel. File in /feed does not show correctly. Upload and insertion of all products in google base works. Don't know why this is. Anybody see the same happening?