[drupal-docs] Good stuff: make the user test out the module...

Gabor Hojtsy gabor at hojtsy.hu
Fri Mar 25 20:27:20 UTC 2005


>>> PS: I did my first cron job, yay!  It seemed a lot harder than it  
>>> actually was.  ^.^;;  I assume the completely blank white page I  got 
>>> at cron.php was proper behavior...  I wasn't sure so I ran a  search, 
>>> which worked for the first time.  ^.^
>>
>> There was some talk about outputing some confirmation if the cron  run 
>> ends, so it is not just a blank page to stare at...
> 
> -1 on that.  When run as as actual CRON task (using curl in my case),  
> successful runs result in no output and no e-mail.  Errors, however,  
> result in an e-mail being sent to me which is a good thing so that I  
> can investigate.  If we start providing output on successful runs, I  
> will either get an e-mail for every run, or I have to pipe everything  
> to /dev/null (and will lose my ability to be notified of errors).

Well, command line grepping and ignoring of success messages is quite 
straightforward...

Goba



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