[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by |Jordan|

Can this increase server load? My webhost just contacted me saying that cron.php among other scripts were using too much cpu.

Not this mod. This mod just calls cron.php just like it normally would except on an exact schedule. It could be you have a scheduled task that is using a lot of CPU though.

[plothook]

I have been using this mod for quite some time (clicked install over a year ago) now, and always lived with vBulletin cron tasks running one at a time when the linux cron ran once a minute.

But last week I got ambitious and dug into the bash shell to write this script that runs all the tasks scheduled for any any particular minute, instead of allowing them to sit in 'backlog' until the next minute.

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[OnyxChase]

Why not just use:

/usr/bin/php /home/username/public_html/forum/cron.php >& /dev/null

???

[Jafo232]

Because then you are still displaying the cron.php image..

[OnyxChase]

Ah, I understand what you are saying. But I still think it is better to call the /usr/bin/php directly rather than using a .SH script that does the exact same thing.

But of course, the product XML would have to be loaded to remove the $cronimage from displaying.

[plothook]

You need the shell script to change the working directory to where vBulletin lives.
If you call /usr/bin/php directly from cron, your working directory will be $HOME for the account running cron and cron.php won't find any of the includes it needs.

[Darkimmortal]

Thanks, this is a very useful mod

It also works on Windows for those of you that have cronw installed.

[lord_of_chaos]

Does still work with vB 4.

Im Happy!

[cbj]

Humm.. Why not adding this to crontab..?

(Needs wget, fetch or similar).

* * * * * /path/to/wget -O /dev/null "http://myforum.com/cron.php" >> /dev/null 2>&1

The image is still fetched, but not stored or displayed - as wget, when invoked with the "-O" option, outputs the data to /dev/null.

It seems to work fine here.

[btlewand]

Any directions on how to use this add-on? Added the .xml file into vBulletin and scheduled the CRON script in my cPanel but nothing is happening.

[ru55ian]

anyone tested this with 4.2?

[Darkside2012]

Originally Posted by ru55ian

anyone tested this with 4.2?

yes..... works fine for me