The system module page has 28 comments on configuring cron jobs. I have included a link to this in the system page. http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/system

I believe these are all covered here: http://drupal.org/node/23714. But someone needs to review all 28 comments and be sure.

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I made some progress on this tonight (there are now only 5 comments instead of 28!). I created a page specifically about configuring cron in Windows (http://drupal.org/node/31506) and transferred some of the little tidbits from the comments to the main cron configuration page (http://drupal.org/node/23714).

TODO:
- Clean up Configuring cron jobs page so it's more scannable, i.e. create headlines to delineate major topic areas.
- Create some manner of "step by step" instructions for creating a cron job under Linux.
- Insert a small PHP script which can be called in lieu of wget or lynx for hosts which don't permit that (there is one there, but it uses fopen, the remote file retrieval features of which is generally disabled by hosts for security reasons). I'm thinking of one using the curl libraries which from what I understand are considered "safer"... and actually, this might be better as a contribution to /scripts/ rather than in the docs.

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Removed the last 5 comments. Added search, ping, and aggregator as examples of modules which need cron. Created two child pages for line by line instructions and dreamhost specific instructions. Linked directly to curl scripts in Drupal CVS as an alternate to using wget or lynx.

No more comments on System module page!

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Status: Active » Fixed
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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)