[Vtigercrm-developers] New cron management in 5.4.0

[Alan Lord]

On 21/05/12 15:07, Joe Bordes wrote:
> I think the idea is that you now execute the vtigercron.php script and
> it takes care of all the tasks for you.

Yes, that's right. There are also some new vtlib functions to help 
manage these jobs (and add new ones for example).

> I think there is a script in the cron directory that does this for you,
> but we are calling that php directly in our installs and it seems to be
> working

cron/vtigercron.sh is the cookie. That bit is working fine; it is email 
sending that we are struggling to sort out.

But in this thread I wanted to understand how the scheduler will deal 
with intervals which are shorter than the scheduled frequency...

>>> I have a question on about the sendreminder job though...
>>>
>>> If it is set for 15 minute intervals, and I request a reminder 5 minutes
>>> before the event, is there not a high possibility of that reminder never
>>> being triggered?
>>>
>>> (I always used to set my sendreminder.sh cron job to run every minute.)