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Description
-----------

Poormanscron is a module which runs the Drupal cron operations without
needing the cron application.

For every page view, this module checks to see if our last cron run was more
than 1 hour ago (this period is configurable). If so, the cron hooks are
executed (which, for example, update RSS/syndication blocks), and Drupal
is happy. These cron hooks fire after all HTML is returned to the browser,
so the user who kicks off the cron jobs should not notice any delay.


Requirements
------------

This module requires Drupal 5.0 or a later version.


Installation
------------

1) Copy/upload the poormanscron.module and poormanscron.info files into a
   subdirectory called poormanscron/ in the sites/all/modules/ directory of
   your Drupal installation.
2) Enable the Poormanscron module (Administer -> Site building -> Modules).


Configuration
-------------

Poormanscron can be configured at
  Administer -> Site configuration -> Poormanscron.


Authors
-------

 * Moshe Weitzman <weitzman@tejasa.com> - original author
 * Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de> - current maintainer

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  2. Description

  3. -----------

  4. 

  5. Poormanscron is a module which runs the Drupal cron operations without

  6. needing the cron application.

  7. 

  8. For every page view, this module checks to see if our last cron run was more

  9. than 1 hour ago (this period is configurable). If so, the cron hooks are

  10. executed (which, for example, update RSS/syndication blocks), and Drupal

  11. is happy. These cron hooks fire after all HTML is returned to the browser,

  12. so the user who kicks off the cron jobs should not notice any delay.

  13. 

  14. 

  15. Requirements

  16. ------------

  17. 

  18. This module requires Drupal 5.0 or a later version.

  19. 

  20. 

  21. Installation

  22. ------------

  23. 

  24. 1) Copy/upload the poormanscron.module and poormanscron.info files into a

  25.    subdirectory called poormanscron/ in the sites/all/modules/ directory of

  26.    your Drupal installation.

  27. 2) Enable the Poormanscron module (Administer -> Site building -> Modules).

  28. 

  29. 

  30. Configuration

  31. -------------

  32. 

  33. Poormanscron can be configured at

  34.   Administer -> Site configuration -> Poormanscron.

  35. 

  36. 

  37. Authors

  38. -------

  39. 

  40.  * Moshe Weitzman  - original author

  41.  * Uwe Hermann  - current maintainer

  42.