I would also like to add that since we introduced the functionality to run cron manually (5.x) I think many users will see the warning "Cron has not been run". Ok, they thinks and presses "Run cron manually" and think the problem is fixed.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/31/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">O Govinda</b> <<a href="mailto:jswami@pamho.net">jswami@pamho.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>I'm doing a revised help page for the Search module, and I have a question<br>about cron.<br><br>Our documentation says you should set up a "cron job" that visits<br><a href="http://example.com/cron.php">
http://example.com/cron.php</a> "frequently." Newbies may well wonder, "What's<br>*frequently*? Once a week? Once a day? Once an hour?" We offer no clue.<br><br>Newbie admins facing the challenge of using Drupal to set up their first
<br>website may not want to delve deep into cron. Chances are they'd like a<br>simple suggestion they can use as a default: "You can do it this way."<br><br>So I'd like to tell them:<br><br>"For a modest personal site, you might set up such a cron job to run every
<br>[SPECIFY INTERVAL HERE]. For a larger site you'd likely want to run that job<br>more often."<br><br>Question: Is this suitable advice? If so, what should that interval be?<br><br>Thanks.<br><br>Cordially,<br>
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