[drupal-support] Any alternative to using Crontab?

[Larry Garfield]

Try the poormanscron module.  It runs cron jobs at the end of a page request 
if they need to be, all from the PHP/Apache process.  Probably not as 
efficient as real cron, but works well for me.

On Sunday 31 July 2005 07:09 pm, Rob wrote:
> I never have been able to get Crontab to work to update news feeds in
> Drupal. I tried
> dozens of commands, changed permissions, etc. and my hosting company did a
> reinstall
> to be sure there was not a bug. I tried using WebCron.Org which works on
> one site but
> does not seem to work well on another.
>
> Does anyone know of any alternative way to do this such as using some type
> of spidering script?
>
> Rob

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