I had my hosting company set up a cron job for every Sunday to run the nph-verify.cgi script to validate my links (because I always received timeouts and this was suggested here in the forum).

A helpful support technician said the cron job is up and running, but how do I view the results? I'm not firmiliar with cron jobs... I thought it would just be emailed to me... I guess that was wishful thinking..

Thanks,

Jason

You'll need to get your host to direct the output to a file, maybe something like:

perl /path/to/nph-verify.cgi > /path/to/output.txt

Paul,

Here's what my hosting company said:

I've attempted running this command for you on the server, but it's
just hanging and doesn't appear to be doing anything...This may be due
to the earlier problem of the system timeout preventing it from
running, I'm still investigating at this point. I'm hesitant to add
it to the cron job at this point, due to the freezing, but once we get
it running properly, I'll be happy to add it on for you.

If you can perhaps glean some more information regarding this problem, it would be helpful. I'm not seeing any real reason why the nph-verify.cgi script should be stopping like it is, but that is what's happening right now.

Jason