[documentation] Question on cron

[Peter Wolanin]

I thought there was an issue to add admin warnings in 5.x after cron
was not run for a week, month, etc., but I can't find it in the issue
queue.

For me, I'd think daily is a minimum cron interval, and hourly is normal.

-Peter

On 12/31/06, Johan Forngren <johan at forngren.com> wrote:
> 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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