Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Execute Scheduled Tasks Via Crontab

This product will run your scheduled tasks via crontab rather than the current method where Vbulletin uses an image to execute tasks. This can slow down a users experience especially with long running tasks. It also stops all of those cron.php entries in your webserver log.

This product is really only useful for those on *nix (Linux/Unix/Etc) servers. Will not work on Windows based servers.

You should have a rudimentary understanding of crontab before installing this hack.

For those wondering how this differs from this hack, well, first of all, it works for 3.6.8, but more importantly it actually replaces the method Vbulletin uses to execute scheduled tasks, whereas the other hack only helps it out.

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[plothook]

You need the shell script to change the working directory to where vBulletin lives.
If you call /usr/bin/php directly from cron, your working directory will be $HOME for the account running cron and cron.php won't find any of the includes it needs.

[Darkimmortal]

Thanks, this is a very useful mod

It also works on Windows for those of you that have cronw installed.

[lord_of_chaos]

Does still work with vB 4.

Im Happy!

[cbj]

Humm.. Why not adding this to crontab..?

(Needs wget, fetch or similar).

* * * * * /path/to/wget -O /dev/null "http://myforum.com/cron.php" >> /dev/null 2>&1

The image is still fetched, but not stored or displayed - as wget, when invoked with the "-O" option, outputs the data to /dev/null.

It seems to work fine here.

[btlewand]

Any directions on how to use this add-on? Added the .xml file into vBulletin and scheduled the CRON script in my cPanel but nothing is happening.

[ru55ian]

anyone tested this with 4.2?

[Darkside2012]

Originally Posted by ru55ian

anyone tested this with 4.2?

yes..... works fine for me