[drupal-support] Any alternative to using Crontab?

[Andrew Cohill]

On Aug 2, 2005, at 2:11 PM, Larry Garfield wrote:

> 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.

you can cause the cron.php file to run from any machine, not just the  
server that the site is on.  For some of my sites, I use a curl  
command that executes on my Mac, where it is very easy to set up cron  
jobs using something like Macaroni (a cron front end) or just cron  
from the command line.

Andrew

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