[documentation] Question on cron

[Johan Forngren]

I would also like to add that since we introduced the functionality to run
cron manually (5.x) I think many users will see the warning "Cron has not
been run". Ok, they thinks and presses "Run cron manually" and think the
problem is fixed.

On 12/31/06, O Govinda <jswami at pamho.net> wrote:
>
>
> I'm doing a revised help page for the Search module, and I have a question
> about cron.
>
> Our documentation says you should set up a "cron job" that visits
> http://example.com/cron.php "frequently." Newbies may well wonder, "What's
> *frequently*? Once a week? Once a day? Once an hour?" We offer no clue.
>
> Newbie admins facing the challenge of using Drupal to set up their first
> website may not want to delve deep into cron. Chances are they'd like a
> simple suggestion they can use as a default: "You can do it this way."
>
> So I'd like to tell them:
>
> "For a modest personal site, you might set up such a cron job to run every
> [SPECIFY INTERVAL HERE]. For a larger site you'd likely want to run that
> job
> more often."
>
> Question: Is this suitable advice? If so, what should that interval be?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Cordially,
> O Govinda
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