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How Often To Run Cron

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Posted February 6th, 2008 by tourguide

What is the consensus on how often to run a Cron job for a website? The site does not get indexed or aggregated feeds don't get updated till it runs, among other things. CDMUG.org currently has Cron running every 24hours. Any thoughts or client request come to mind?

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wget
Submitted by derby on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 1:55am.

The cron.php is public and doesn't need authentication to run AFAIK.

I use wget in my crontab on my linux box at home. This way I can control all my drupal sites' cron with one crontab.

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Submitted by matthew on Mon, 02/11/2008 - 4:34pm.

The frequency of cron depends on the necessity of having the site indexed. If you have an active forum, you will want it indexed frequently for functionality such as searching. If you have a catalog of items and items are only added once a week, then the cron is only needed once a week. If you have RSS feeds or aggregated data, you will probably want your cron updated every hour. Again, cron realy varies from site to site.

What do you use for cron? wget ? lynx? I usually always use wget.

If any drupal test drivers need cron jobs setup. Let me know, I can set it up for you.

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