Boardsync and cron jobs

I've been trying to work out how a cron job syncs a board with a mailing list. Or rather, I can see that boardsync_cron.php runs board_sync_run(), but AFAICT nothing actually sets up the cron job so this function is never executed.

Is this something that has to be setup manually, or am I missing something?

yes, scheduling of the cron job needs to be done just like you would schedule and recurring script on your server.

Thanks.

I ended up putting something like this in /etc/cron.d:



Curiously, when running on my dev box I had no errors. On my production server I kept getting this:

AFAICT both boxes should have had an identical config so it beats me why the sync should run without error on one and not the other. Anyway, I fixed the problem by adding:

to boardsync_inc.php and all is now well.