[drupal-support] Any alternative to using Crontab?

[Peter Karlberg]

2 aug 2005 kl. 21.34 skrev 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.
>
If you just want to test if it works http://your.site.name/cron.php  
works (at least for me). Then you will get a message on top of your  
postings reporting what happend.

Peter


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