Questions tagged [cron]
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Crontab job for specific cron activity
I'm trying to setup the Job Scheduler so that specific actions can be checked against cron every minute to allow for publishing content on a scheduled basis. I'm working on part of an Acquia Cloud ...
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How to execute code that uses the dependency injection container, at regular intervals?
Using Drupal 10 - I tried installing Ultimate Cron for D10, but it is in Alpha state and has deprecated methods that will not let it work. This Cron needs to be executed only on a specific day and ...
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Advanced queue module: How to stop processing queue in cron, when some conditions apply in job event/job preprocessing?
I have a custom module handling jobs from the Advanced Queue module. To limit the number of jobs allowed to be processed in one cron run, I have some configuration variables in my custom module. With ...
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Error: on cron (field_purge_batch)
Seems that Drupal got issues removing deleted fields on cron (just a theory). Got the following error message after cron ran. Anybody got an idea how to get rid of it? Warning: foreach() argument must ...
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How to execute migration in queue through cron run?
I am migrating some nodes from an API. The API only accepts 60 requests per minute. So it means if 60 items are imported in a minute, all other items will not be imported because the API will return ...
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Cron is running but not saving entity
I am trying to create a simple hook_cron to connect with an external API, return some data and update some fields in some entities. I'm creating like this to understand better how cron works, so I ...
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Cron Tasks not running in background, causing pages to take forever to load
We recently upgraded to D8 and I have been experiencing weird issues with Cron. Specifically, whenever the Cron is running, web pages are taking forever to load because cron is running some JS on the ...
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How can I completely disable cron so that it won't run even if the cron URL is hit or cron is ran manually?
When working on a dev site I'd like to put in a safeguard to make sure cron cannot run, even if triggered manually. Is there a way to do this in Drupal 7?
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