Posted by jrpowell01 on June 19, 2009 at 7:49pm
I'm new to drupal and trying to get my feed aggregator to update feeds automatically. It says it needs cron to run maintanance tasks but I cant really figure out how to do that. So, will feed ag. update automatically with poormanscron?
TIA!
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Yes! - Use Poormanscron
Feed aggregation happens during cron jobs. If you don't have access to configure cron jobs on your server, poormans cron should work just fine for you.
After a page is rendered by Drupal - poorman's cron checks how long it has taken since cron to run - if it has been 60 minutes (or whatever time you set it to)
It will run the cron job.
So, as long as someone is visiting your site once every hour, cron will run every hour.