I think I know what's going on... The old RDF system created a static file via cron. I haven't looked closely at the box grist.org is using, but based on a quick glance around the grist.org site, it looks like that box is not intended to run as a cron at all. Since you mention the entire contents of the feed is displayed in an ugly red font, that tells me the box has the rss feed as its output - cron boxes have *no* output except error messages. What you need to do is attach that box to an op, instead of a cron. You'll probably want to check with the grist.org folks for the settings you need, but you'll be creating the op 'rss', telling it to use the box as its function (and that it is a box), at minimum. Hope this gets you sorted out! -janra On 1-May-06, at 10:07 AM, Gary Brown wrote: > The box saves fine. Is a Box is checked. When I force the cron > job, it reports: > > Error doing run: > rss_feed: > > It then proceeds to display the contents of the feed in a big ugly > red font. I looked in the debug and activity logs I have access to > and couldn't find anything of value. > > I have commented out most of the code trying to generate a more > helpful error to no avail. If you can tell me what log to look at > I would really appreciate it. This code is generating a nice > standard feed at grist.org and I'd love to get it running on my site. > > I need to stop coding and start posting content ;) > > thanx -gary- > > At 09:51 AM 5/1/2006 -0700, you wrote: >> Hello Gary, >> >> If the box saves fine and doesn't generate big red error messages, >> the box should be okay. >> >> Make sure that when you refer to the box on the cron page, you've >> checked "Is a box". If it isn't checked, the cron job will not be >> able to find the program it needs to run. If you still can't get >> it, we can always check the log files and see if we can figure out >> what is going on. >> >> -- >> Cory R. King >> Vice President - XLAN, Inc. > > ============================================= > Clearanswer Limited - Gary Brown 775-846-7626 > 360 Freeport STE 18 Sparks, NV 89431 > glbrown at clearanswer.com - www.clearanswer.com > > _______________________________________________ > Scoop-help mailing list > Scoop-help at lists.kuro5hin.org > http://lists.kuro5hin.org/mailman/listinfo/scoop-help