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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Victor and Greg, </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for your help.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Just for your information, I am setting up a
non-ESL site on Drupal, so this isn't for the site you saw Victor. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My host has a cron job section of the control
panel, so that doesn't seem as if it will be too difficult.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am now looking into getting my first ever crontab
set up just so I can see it working, then I'll worry about setting up the script
itself to update user roles. I have never set up a cron job before so I am
taking baby steps, where to put the script, where to set up the schedule. There
seems to be a lack of "Cron Jobs for Idiots" type tutorials on the web, but I'll
keep lookiing.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That DB Cron module looks very useful Greg,
although it's not available in 5.1.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'll keep looking into this and thank you both once
again.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Neil</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=victorkane@gmail.com href="mailto:victorkane@gmail.com">Victor
Kane</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=support@drupal.org
href="mailto:support@drupal.org">support@drupal.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, March 09, 2007 12:29
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [support] Setting up cron
job for user role updates</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>It's always been my wish to run an ESL site!<BR>I taught ESL
for many years until getting into IT in the late eighties. My whole purpose of
getting into IT was to seek help for my teaching academy, but once in the new
realm, I was caught up entirely by it :) <BR><BR>So I certainly would like to
help you.<BR><BR>Running cron is part of the realm of the operating system,
outside of Drupal.<BR><BR>Your hosting company will allow you to edit cron via
a panel; they may force you to edit cron directly through text you enter, or
they may have some kind of interface to make life easy for you. <BR><BR>If
that is not the case, then you will have to fill in something like the
following:<BR><BR># m h dom mon dow command<BR>0
3 * * * wget -O - -q <A
href="http://mentor/drupal/cron.php">http://mentor/drupal/cron.php
</A><BR><BR>Please see the excellent documentation on the Drupal site at <A
href="http://drupal.org/cron">http://drupal.org/cron</A> which explains all
and gives alternatives to wget. There are also instructions for certain
hosting companies like Dreamhost, etc. Check out the comments at the bottom of
the page for some illuminating explanations. <BR><BR>Drupal has a poormanscron
module, but I would recommend running cron directly.<BR><BR>Once you have done
this, you can now enable the core search module which will index your site,
and you will be able to supplement the pearl script you are currently using
with Drupal's powerful built-in search facilities. <BR><BR>You should do this
first, at least for testing purposes, to make sure you have cron
running.<BR><BR>For your second step, you need to write a module which
implements <BR>The file cron.php invoked by cron calls <A
href="http://api.drupal.org/api/5/function/drupal_cron_run">http://api.drupal.org/api/5/function/drupal_cron_run</A>
and this some housekeeping and then invokes all module implementations
of hook_cron().<BR><BR>The search module, for example, does the
following:<BR><BR style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace">/**</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"> * Implementation of
hook_cron().</SPAN><BR style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"> *</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"> * Fires hook_update_index()
in all modules and cleans up dirty words (see </SPAN><BR
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"> * search_dirty).</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"> */</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace">function search_cron() {</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"> // We register a shutdown
function to ensure that search_total is always up</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"> // to date.</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace">
register_shutdown_function('search_update_totals');</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"><BR
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"> // Update word
index</SPAN><BR style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"> foreach (module_list() as
$module) {</SPAN><BR style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace">
module_invoke($module, 'update_index');</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"> }</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace">}</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"><BR>You would need to write a
module which, in its modulename_cron() function effectively iterates over the
users and carries out the changes you propose.<BR><BR>Cheers, <BR><BR>Victor
Kane<BR><A
href="http://awebfactory.com.ar">http://awebfactory.com.ar</A><BR><BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 3/9/07, <B class=gmail_sendername>Neil: <A
href="http://esl-lounge.com">esl-lounge.com</A> </B><<A
href="mailto:neil@esl-lounge.com">neil@esl-lounge.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here is my wish: to run a cron job a few times
a day to update all Authenticated Users to Full Members once they have
posted five comments/forum posts.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My plan is to have all comments posted by
Authenticated Users moderated but move users up to the Full Members role I
will create to cut down on moderation work. How would I go about doing this?
Is there any documentation on <A
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://drupal.org" target=_blank>drupal.org</A> about setting up cron
jobs? There don't seem to be any modules to allow this. Userpoints exists
but isn't free. A simple cron job seems to be the easiest solution all
round. Has anyone else put something like this in place?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Neil</FONT></DIV></DIV><BR>--<BR>[ Drupal
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