Although I have set a regular cron job to run periodically, I would like also to force a cron run on sending a tweet by drupal. How do I do this? Thanks!

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Michsk commented

my tweets are send automatically... no cron needed

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amir simantov commented

I may have not explained it well enough. Of course, the tweets are sent automatically. However, I am using the accompanied view to show recent posts to twitter. In order for this view (a block) to be refreshed I need to run cron. So I want to run cron automatically after a post to twitter.

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manumilou commented

I am also using a view to display my recent posts on Twitter. The solution i choose to update my view is to run the cron job (cron.php at the root of the drupal installation) in crontab. I configured the cron job to run every hour. You may set here whatever time you want.

Here is my crontab (crontab -e on Linux): 

# m h  dom mon dow   command
0 * * * * /usr/bin/wget -O - -q -t 1 http://manumilou.net/cron.php

If you want to run this script just after posting a tweet from your website, the trigger module should be able to do that.

Manu

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YK85 commented

+1 subscribing

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Michsk commented

Amir, this woulde be posible with rules i guess. After posting a message to twitter >> run cron.

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arcall commented

Use trigger module to launch a PHP script on published content ( blog, news, event, etc ) and add the following PHP code.

$cmd = 'wget -O - -q -t 1 http://www.yoursite.com/cron.php';
exec($cmd);

Hope it helps.

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mrf commented
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Looks like there a lot of solutions here already. I'd add drupal.org/project/elysia_cron to the mix as a possibility.