Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/19173 Project: Drupal Version: cvs Component: base system Category: feature requests Priority: normal Assigned to: robertDouglass Reported by: robertDouglass Updated by: moshe weitzman Status: patch an alternative approach is to make a quick PHP page which simply calls mailhandler_cron and any others that need to be called more frequently than normal. then call that php page from cron every couple minutes ... not so sure this complexity is worth having. moshe weitzman Previous comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ March 20, 2005 - 05:08 : robertDouglass Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/cronpatch.txt (1.99 KB) Some sites need fine grained timing for cron runs. For example, a site that relies heavily on moblogging, mailhandler or any other email based function would want to connect with the email server pretty often, say ever 2-5 minutes. On another site I'm working on we generate flat files for all of a certain node type on a regular basis, though not every 2-5 minutes. Thus the need for cron tasks on different schedules. This patch allows you to make a list of modules to either include or exclude when running cron, so that several cron tasks for one site can be defined. The default behavior in the absence of both parameters is to run all, so the patch preserves backwards compatibility. * Examples: * * runs all hooks * http://mysite.com/cron.php * * runs all hooks except the search and aggregator modules * http://mysite.com/cron.php?exclude=search,aggregator * * runs only search, archive and aggregator modules * http://mysite.com/cron.php?includ=search,archive,aggregator ------------------------------------------------------------------------ March 23, 2005 - 16:23 : Dries Isn't it possible to run all cron functions every 2-5 minutes? The impact of that should be minimal.