[support] Setting up cron job for user role updates

[Victor Kane]

Great, as we pointed out, on the drupal site itself, there are a lot of
tutorials also; if Search is enabled and it works, you know cron is running
well.

On 3/9/07, RJ <ryanfirst at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>  Tutorials:
>
>
> http://promosearch.atomz.com/search/promosearch?sp-a=sp1000a5a9&sp-f=ISO-8859-1&sp-t=general&sp-k=Articles%7CBooks%7CConferences%7COther%7CWeblogs&sp-x-1=cat&sp-q-1=ONLamp&c=ONLamp&sp-p-1=phrase&query=cron&sp-q=cron&search=Go
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Neil: esl-lounge.com <neil at esl-lounge.com>
> *To:* support at drupal.org
> *Sent:* Friday, March 09, 2007 9:40 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [support] Setting up cron job for user role updates
>
> Victor and Greg,
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Just for your information, I am setting up a non-ESL site on Drupal, so
> this isn't for the site you saw Victor.
>
> My host has a cron job section of the control panel, so that doesn't seem
> as if it will be too difficult.
>
> I am now looking into getting my first ever crontab set up just so I can
> see it working, then I'll worry about setting up the script itself to update
> user roles. I have never set up a cron job before so I am taking baby steps,
> where to put the script, where to set up the schedule. There seems to be a
> lack of "Cron Jobs for Idiots" type tutorials on the web, but I'll keep
> lookiing.
>
> That DB Cron module looks very useful Greg, although it's not available in
> 5.1.
>
> I'll keep looking into this and thank you both once again.
>
> Neil
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Victor Kane <victorkane at gmail.com>
> *To:* support at drupal.org
> *Sent:* Friday, March 09, 2007 12:29 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [support] Setting up cron job for user role updates
>
> It's always been my wish to run an ESL site!
> I taught ESL for many years until getting into IT in the late eighties. My
> whole purpose of getting into IT was to seek help for my teaching academy,
> but once in the new realm, I was caught up entirely by it :)
>
> So I certainly would like to help you.
>
> Running cron is part of the realm of the operating system, outside of
> Drupal.
>
> Your hosting company will allow you to edit cron via a panel; they may
> force you to edit cron directly through text you enter, or they may have
> some kind of interface to make life easy for you.
>
> If that is not the case, then you will have to fill in something like the
> following:
>
> # m h  dom mon dow   command
> 0   3   *   *   *   wget -O - -q http://mentor/drupal/cron.php
>
> Please see the excellent documentation on the Drupal site at
> http://drupal.org/cron which explains all and gives alternatives to wget.
> There are also instructions for certain hosting companies like Dreamhost,
> etc. Check out the comments at the bottom of the page for some illuminating
> explanations.
>
> Drupal has a poormanscron module, but I would recommend running cron
> directly.
>
> Once you have done this, you can now enable the core search module which
> will index your site, and you will be able to supplement the pearl script
> you are currently using with Drupal's powerful built-in search facilities.
>
> You should do this first, at least for testing purposes, to make sure you
> have cron running.
>
> For your second step, you need to write a module which implements
> The file cron.php invoked by cron calls
> http://api.drupal.org/api/5/function/drupal_cron_run and this  some
> housekeeping and then invokes all module implementations of hook_cron().
>
> The search module, for example, does the following:
>
> /**
>  * Implementation of hook_cron().
>  *
>  * Fires hook_update_index() in all modules and cleans up dirty words (see
>
>  * search_dirty).
>  */
> function search_cron() {
>   // We register a shutdown function to ensure that search_total is always
> up
>   // to date.
>   register_shutdown_function('search_update_totals');
>
>   // Update word index
>   foreach (module_list() as $module) {
>     module_invoke($module, 'update_index');
>   }
> }
>
> You would need to write a module which, in its modulename_cron() function
> effectively iterates over the users and carries out the changes you propose.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Victor Kane
> http://awebfactory.com.ar
>
> On 3/9/07, Neil: esl-lounge.com <neil at esl-lounge.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Here is my wish: to run a cron job a few times a day to update all
> > Authenticated Users to Full Members once they have posted five
> > comments/forum posts.
> >
> > My plan is to have all comments posted by Authenticated Users moderated
> > but move users up to the Full Members role I will create to cut down on
> > moderation work. How would I go about doing this? Is there any documentation
> > on drupal.org about setting up cron jobs? There don't seem to be any
> > modules to allow this. Userpoints exists but isn't free. A simple cron job
> > seems to be the easiest solution all round. Has anyone else put something
> > like this in place?
> >
> > Neil
> >
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