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authorGábor Hojtsy <gabor@hojtsy.hu>2007-12-19 17:45:43 +0000
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#197730 by keith.smith: standardize on a much more user friendly cron reference in help texts, explain its importance with more examples in INSTALL.txt
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@@ -177,12 +177,16 @@ INSTALLATION
on an existing site, remember to copy all files from the original location
to the new location.
-8. CRON TASKS
+8. CRON MAINTENANCE TASKS
- Many Drupal modules (such as the search functionality) have periodic tasks
- that must be triggered by a cron job. To activate these tasks, call the cron
- page by visiting http://www.example.com/cron.php --this will pass control to
- the modules and the modules will decide if and what they must do.
+ Many Drupal modules have periodic tasks that must be triggered by a cron
+ maintenance task, including search module (to build and update the index
+ used for keyword searching), aggregator module (to retrieve feeds from other
+ sites), ping module (to notify other sites about new or updated content), and
+ system module (to perform routine maintenance and pruning on system tables).
+ To activate these tasks, call the cron page by visiting
+ http://www.example.com/cron.php, which, in turn, executes tasks on behalf
+ of installed modules.
Most systems support the crontab utility for scheduling tasks like this. The
following example crontab line will activate the cron tasks automatically on
@@ -190,9 +194,9 @@ INSTALLATION
0 * * * * wget -O - -q -t 1 http://www.example.com/cron.php
- More information about the cron scripts are available in the admin help pages
- and in the Drupal handbook at drupal.org. Example scripts can be found in the
- scripts/ directory.
+ More information about cron maintenance tasks are available in the help pages
+ and in Drupal's online handbook at http://drupal.org/cron. Example scripts can
+ be found in the scripts/ directory.
DRUPAL ADMINISTRATION
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