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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