Cron Resources for Movable Type

By Ken Edwards on Mar 31, 2009 2 Vote 0

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Since I have been working with cron issues in Movable Type recently, I thought it would be good to list some resources that you can find on the MT site.

I am not sure if setting it up as a daemon process is a good idea or not, something I will need to ask support.

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Tom Apr 01, 2009 11:30 PM | Reply

Don't run run-periodic-tasks as a daemon.

it doesn't work with Action Streams. Known issue. It's mentioned in the AS documentation.

this is all you need:
*/5 * * * * cd /var/www/cgi-bin/mt; perl ./tools/run-periodic-tasks

runs every 5 minutes.

might explain the problem you are describing here:
http://bgviewsnetwork.com/dev/2009/03/cron-issues-batch-template-options/

I too had some weird Publish Queue issues. I think I had issues with Category & Entry archives, but also my Main Index template. I forget what the issue was now. If I recall the Main Index would display very old entries.

I finally set it back to Static. Maybe I'll try it again, and maybe between the two of us we can get 6A to fix! :)

Ken Edwards Apr 02, 2009 12:02 AM | Reply

Hey Tom,

I finally turned on verbose logging for my cron job and am pretty sure the issue I am having is because of a plugin, see below. Never though of running as a daemon, but now know that I won't even think about it! Good to know, thanks.

My current issues seem to be only with Archive Indexes (category, monthly, author). I have written the plugin developer to get their 2 cents.

Publishing /home/bgv/public_html/master/dev/2009/04/index.php, priority 2
Eval failure: Can't locate object method "static_path" via package "MT::App" at /home/bgv/public_html/mt/plugins/BlogShow/BlogShow.pl line 130.
job failed. considering retry. is max_retries of 0 >= failures of 1?

I also wrote Six Apart Support about this, but I am guessing they will tell me to talk to the plugin developer.

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