Hi, Maybe also a good alternative to poormanscron and crontab is the Croninfinite module. It's still a sanbox Project but it works fine for me for a month now, very simple and without struggeling with the crontab command.
Cheers Von meinem drahtlosen BlackBerry®-Handheld gesendet -----Original Message----- From: Steve Ringwood <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:20:50 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected], [email protected] Subject: Re: [development] Why is drupal_page_footer() triggering cron? Ernst Look under Administration » Configuration » System » Cron You can set the frequency to never in which case you would need a cron job configured for the cron tasks to actually run. Nevets On 7/14/2011 1:11 PM, Ernst Plüss wrote: > Hi > > In D7 I discovered at the end of drupal_page_footer()[1] cron jobs are > started. On our website this triggers the search index being updated, > which can take minutes. Needles to say that the user doesn't want to > wait for this to be finished. > > I'm curious whether cron is relay called at the end of each page > request? My understanding of hook_cron is that it is only called by > cron.php. > > How can I make sure that this does not trigger any long running cron jobs? > > Regards > Ernst > > > > [1]http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes--common.inc/function/drupal_page_footer/7 > >
