Cron job setup best practice

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 eZ Publish web site.

So, how are you guys configuring your cron jobs?

Sincerely,

Eirik Alfstad Johansen
http://www.netmaking.no/

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/

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

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.