cron problem

my site works fine but I have been receiving messages to my email for the last couple of hours saying:

/bin/sh: line 0: cd: /home/talkexpa/public_html/periodic: No such file or directory
Could not open input file: cron.php

The trouble is that these are coming in to my email every minute, any help would be appreciated

Was it working correctly until a couple of hours ago? If it was I would guess something happened to the cron.php file. Were you working on the site? FTP in and make sure the file is still there.

If you just want to stop the emails until you figure it out just login to Cpanel and remove the cron job. That icon is normally located on one of the bottom rows. Once you fix the problem just don't forget to put it back or your video processing, mass emails, and a few other things won't work.

Try this:

http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/wiki/TutorialCronJobSetup

I know it helped me with the same problem.

thanks guys and yes it was working ok although recently I have been getting a fair amount of cron messages to my email but suddenly it just went off on one.

I was working on clearing out spam directly from mysql(auto bloggers had sent the site nearly 28000 blogs).

Still trying to find this cron problem but really appreciate your help.

28000 BLOGS???!!! Wow. Why were you doing it directly from MySql if I may ask? Do you find it easier than deleting the fake accounts from your dolphin admin panel? 

Checkout this thread: http://www.boonex.com/forums/?action=goto&my_threads=1#topic/spam-spam-spam-spam-IDEA-.htm

It will help you with taking care of spam.

And did  you make sure you got the correct directory for the "cron.php"

• to find your exact /home/sitedir/public_html/ edit your /inc/header.inc.php and look for

  $dir['root']

Problem solved, it seems the hosting company upgraded my site server and according to them they messed up and included an extra line in the cron jobs...before you say it, I don't believe it ...but as they have apologized and fixed it, I'm not saying any more...

ZedFaces: Much faster deleting large amounts of spam directly from mysql regarding blogs, it takes seconds but many thanks for the link.

 You welcome. So you just delete the actual blogs and not the accounts creating the blogs? If you delete the accounts from you Dolphin Admin panel your everything tied to that account gets erased too including the blogs. You should try it if you haven't already.