Damn cron issues :(
 

I wanted to launch a tgp yesterday with smart thumbs5 and arrowtrader lite3 installed, 1000 galleries in the database, nice big thumbs, I was adding trades and all my thumbs disappeared in a heart beat.
The smart thumbs people have their birthday party and I am clueless here, must be some cron issue.
The at3 should show all hits in the main stats area but it doesn't.
Smartthumbs should update in every 2 seconds but it stopped.
General settings read:
"Manual index rotation
Clicks to index thumbs refresh:
391 2006-02-26 23:16:01"
Help file:
"Clicks to index thumbs refresh
# Count of clicks which you need reach for thumbs autorotation. This number is updated with cron. If you do not see that this number is decreasing every 2-minute then cron is not properly working and you have to check cron settings.
# Date show you when was done last rotation."

I have no idea where to check the cron settings, it is my first script. I must go back to the clinic soon.. any suggestions? |cry|

Anyone out there? Do you hear me? :(

Open Terminal and SSH into your server and open a shell to edit your crontab. Vi is my editor and can be a bit confusing. Here is a page on using Vi.
http://staff.washington.edu/rells/R110/#basics5

SSH into your server
ssh USERNAME@YOURDOMAIN.com
HIT RETURN
it will ask you for your password and not show what you type.
HIT RETURN
crontab -e
HIT RETURN

This should put you in your default editor which most likely is Vi

Thanks Cleo... let me try it. You rock as usual :D

It is not even accepting my ftp password using terminal and SSH only via ftp. Giving up I think, I tried my best yesterday.

Wow my site is up and running again :) I had no cron job set up at all and wasn't even aware of it, silly me. Then a wise man came and waved his magic hand and fixed everything in a flash.
I am so happy :D