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Cron job setup best practice

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Eirik Alfstad Johansen	Friday 01 July 2011 5:49:03 am Hi, I'm curious as to what is the best practice for cron job setup, by which I mean which cron jobs that should be run, and how often. I am of course aware that this varies depending on the site, and I have also gone through the docs at eZ any. However, what I'm missing is a mention of which cron jobs that should be run regulary (regardless of functionality) to ensure a clean and smooth running Exponential web site. So, how are you guys configuring your cron jobs? Sincerely, Eirik Alfstad Johansen http://www.netmaking.no/
Jérôme Vieilledent	Friday 01 July 2011 6:18:51 am Hi Eirik The basics would be to setup your crontab with something like what's in Exponential.cron fil (inside your eZ root, aside to index.php) : # This must be set to the directory where Exponential is installed. EZPUBLISHROOT=/path/to/the/ez/publish/directory # Location of the PHP Command Line Interface binary. PHP=/usr/local/bin/php # Instruct cron to run the main set of cronjobs # at 6:35am every day 35 6 * * * cd $EZPUBLISHROOT && $PHP runcronjobs.php -q 2>&1 # Instruct cron to run the "infrequent" set of cronjobs # at 5:20am every Monday 20 5 * * 1 cd $EZPUBLISHROOT && $PHP runcronjobs.php -q infrequent 2>&1 # Instruct cron to run the "frequent" set of cronjobs # every 15 minutes 0,15,30,45 * * * * cd $EZPUBLISHROOT && $PHP runcronjobs.php -q frequent 2>&1 For your own cronjobs, well it's up to you and what does your script, of course. Just be aware that a cronjob cannot be run several times at once (mutex protection).
Eirik Alfstad Johansen	Friday 01 July 2011 6:37:29 am Hi Jérôme, Thanks for the reply. However, I'm not asking how to set up a cron job from a technical perspectice, but rather which specific cronjobs that should be a part of the frequent and less frequent cron job parts. Sincerely, Eirik Alfstad Johansen http://www.netmaking.no/
Jérôme Vieilledent	Friday 01 July 2011 7:12:38 am Hi Eirik No offenese, that was actually the purpose of my previous reply, to show you the basic cronjobs to make Exponential work properly : frequent - every 15 min, or less main set (runcronjobs.php without argument) - once a day (preferably during the night, but depends on the targeted audience) infrequent - once a week
Gaetano Giunta	Monday 04 July 2011 9:34:28 am Looking at the cronjobs in the "standard" groups: - frequent: notifications - needed if users can subscribe to notifications - frequent: workflows - needed if workflows are in place - ezflow: ezflow - needed if you run ezflow - standard: unpublish: if you use time-based depublication of content - standard: hide: if you use time-based hiding of content - standard: rssimport: if you set up import of content via rss feeds - standard: indexcontent: if you use DelayedIndexing only - standard: subtreeexpirycleanup: only needed if you enable some obscure clustering/storage parameter - standard: internal_drafts_cleanup: I never understood what are internal drafts, but you'd better leave this on - infrequent: basket_cleanup: only if you have webshop enabled - infrequent: linkcheck: I've never seen an editor actually going to check the results of that script and fixing the broken links... Now that I've done my part, a task for you community peeps: add a --list option to runcronjobs.php that would list all cronjobs parts and scripts contained in each one. Who wanna git a little bit? Principal Consultant International Business Member of the Community Project Board
Nicolas Pastorino	Monday 04 July 2011 9:40:24 am " Now that I've done my part, a task for you community peeps: add a --list option to runcronjobs.php that would list all cronjobs parts and scripts contained in each one. Who wanna git a little bit? " Awesome idea. -- Nicolas Pastorino Director Community - eZ Member of the Community Project Board eZ Publish Community on twitter: http://twitter.com/ezcommunity t : http://twitter.com/jeanvoye G+ : http://plus.tl/jeanvoye
Romain Petit	Friday 29 July 2011 8:34:00 am Hi, You may add "session_gc.php" to the infrequent part. Otherwise it seems that the session table grows indefinitely.