[drupal-docs] cron jobs in the install text

[Anisa]

One thought.  If your search yeilds no results, then perhaps a 
suggestion, if they are just beginning the site, that they need to set 
up a cron job?  (still no clue how to do this, please point me to a 
forum thing if you know of one).  Probably want to make this message 
limited to administers, and perhaps let it be disable-able.

Anisa.

Morbus Iff wrote:

>> Two years (and one day ago today), I thought about this as well [1]. 
>> Up to this point the only message I ever found in the logs is "last 
>> cron not completed"  (or so) which is almost useless. We should focus 
>> on more usefull error messages here, for example "The site listed in 
>> the aggregator (http://example.com/rss) was unreachable"
>
>
> Well, that's still a bit of a problem. How can you write a warning to 
> the log that cron ISN'T running, when the only time that warning would 
> be legitimately written is if cron WAS running? (ie. how can you time 
> a warning message that a timed process isn't timed?)
>
> The only thing I can think of is contextual only
> clues. For instance, regarding the search module:
>
>  * search.module checks for an index, or the outdatedness of one.
>  * on the next search (the untimed trigger), the search.module spits
>    a watchdog that the index hasn't been updated in XX days. On a
>    heavy site with lots and lots of searches, this would surely
>    spam the watchdog (which may be a good thing, actually).
>
> But that doesn't solve any of the other timed examples that don't have 
> an easily determined trigger.
>