Hi,<div><br></div><div>Can someone explain what running the drupal cron job does and at what intervals??</div><div><br></div><div>Here is the situation.. We are updating a particular field directly in the database from another source.. This is working fine but the issue is that the updated information doesn&#39;t show on the site straight away.. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I have cron running every hour and have the cache lifetimes on the performance page set to 10 min but even after waiting an hour and a cron run the page still isn&#39;t always updated with the new value of the field.. Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn&#39;t..</div>
<div><br></div><div>The only way I have found to &quot;force&quot; an update is to clear all the caches but this seems like a massive overkill..</div><div><br></div><div>If I can find out when it will update on its own I can set the user expectations so they know they have to wait that long for the data to be updated..</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks for any information..</div>