[development] D6 Cron mystery

[Christian López Espínola]

Hi Jeff,

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 7:37 PM,  <jeff at ayendesigns.com> wrote:
> I have a module that hooks nodeapi and if an update has been performed on
> the correct content type, I create an XML file and transmit it.
> The problem is that the XML files were being created en masse, where
> normally an editor edits a single piece of content. The culprit has
> tentatively been identified as a cron run that updates each node with
> Facebook 'like' statistics, which performs a node save. Interestingly, some
> settings in the file end up being different...settings that should in no way
> be affected by what triggers the update, given that the node data used is
> not different in either case.
> I put the following line in the hook function:
>     if (variable_get('cron_semaphore', FALSE) || user_is_anonymous())
> return;
> I would think that a cron initiated trigger would fail for both conditions.
> It does not fail at all. I'm stuck!

The second condition depends on how do you execute cron.
Could you paste your "crontab -e"?

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