By Tommy Sundstrom on

In the installation instructions this tells how to create a cron task - when you access the unix server on a command line

6. CRON TASKS

   Many Drupal modules have periodic tasks that must be triggered by a
   cron job.  To activate these tasks, you must call the cron page;
   this will pass control to the modules and the modules will decide
   if and what they must do.

   The following example crontab line will activate the cron script
   on the hour:

   0    *   *   *   *   wget -O - -q http://HOSTNAME/cron.php

My access to the server is via phpMyAdmin (2.5.4)? Is it still possible for me to create cron tasks? How?

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nazadus’s picture

nazadus commented

Not completly through phpMyAdmin, that is not possible.
You will need shell access or call your host for them to do it.
Thier is also poormans cron, which runs cron after every page download. It's more taxing on the server though. I don't know how they charge you... but I would call tech support and let them know if your goals.

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moshe weitzman’s picture

moshe weitzman commented

poormanscron check to see if it is time to run cron at the nd of every page view. but it only kicks of the cron run at the configured interval. so it is quite a light load on the server.

Tarlbot’s picture

Tarlbot commented

phpMyAdmin can't set up cron tasks. One remote admin tool that can set up cron tasks is Webmin. One important thing to remember is that the cron task doesn't have to be on the server - it is just a page load so it can be sent from any reliable machine on the internet. Your hosting company will probably set up a cron task to load cron.php periodically but if they won't you can probably find somebody who will. You could ask right here.

annie-1’s picture

annie-1 commented

I'm on XP here at home and have set up a scheduled task to open IE and load www.whatever.com/cron.php once a day. Works well for the small sites I admin. (cleans logs, grabs current rss feeds, ect...)

Annie

SupaDucta’s picture

SupaDucta commented

There is an option Cron Jobs in cPanel, if your host supports it.

Tommy Sundstrom’s picture

Tommy Sundstrom commented

A suggestion for a new install.txt is at http://drupal.org/node/11355 . Please make any comments there.