Comments on: Script for running Cron on all sites in a shared Drupal instance http://www.darcynorman.net/2007/01/01/script-for-running-cron-on-all-sites-in-a-shared-drupal-instance/ apparently much happier in person Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:03:04 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Khalid http://www.darcynorman.net/2007/01/01/script-for-running-cron-on-all-sites-in-a-shared-drupal-instance/#comment-82865 Khalid Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 1689411003#comment-82865 Darcy, Ruby may not be available on all systems. Here is a shell script that does the same thing. Same assumptions as yours. It is tested too. <pre> #!/bin/sh if [ $# = 1 ]; then DRUPAL_SITES_DIR=$1/sites if [ -d "$DRUPAL_SITES_DIR" ]; then cd $DRUPAL_SITES_DIR for SITE in `ls -F | grep /` do FILE=${SITE}settings.php if [ -r "$FILE" ]; then URL=`grep '^\$base_url.*=' $FILE | sed -e "s/^.*http://" -e "s/[';]//g"` if [ "$URL" != "" ]; then wget -O - -q http:$URL/cron.php fi fi done fi fi </pre> Darcy,

Ruby may not be available on all systems.

Here is a shell script that does the same thing. Same assumptions as yours. It is tested too.

#!/bin/sh

if [ $# = 1 ]; then
  DRUPAL_SITES_DIR=$1/sites
  if [ -d "$DRUPAL_SITES_DIR" ]; then
    cd $DRUPAL_SITES_DIR

    for SITE in `ls -F | grep /`
    do
      FILE=${SITE}settings.php
      if [ -r "$FILE" ]; then
        URL=`grep '^\$base_url.*=' $FILE | sed -e "s/^.*http://" -e "s/[';]//g"`
        if [ "$URL" != "" ]; then
          wget -O - -q http:$URL/cron.php
        fi
      fi
    done
  fi
fi
]]> By: dnorman http://www.darcynorman.net/2007/01/01/script-for-running-cron-on-all-sites-in-a-shared-drupal-instance/#comment-82866 dnorman Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 1689411003#comment-82866 Khalid - Well, fine then. Go ahead and whip up a better, more generalizable script that will run anywhere. :-) At least I got to play in Ruby for a bit. I'll be switching to your script to run cron.php, though. Thanks! Khalid – Well, fine then. Go ahead and whip up a better, more generalizable script that will run anywhere. :-)

At least I got to play in Ruby for a bit. I’ll be switching to your script to run cron.php, though. Thanks!

]]> By: sami khan http://www.darcynorman.net/2007/01/01/script-for-running-cron-on-all-sites-in-a-shared-drupal-instance/#comment-82867 sami khan Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 1689411003#comment-82867 lol. i was thinking, c'mon now d'arcy a ruby script to power a php script?!? lol. i was thinking, c’mon now d’arcy a ruby script to power a php script?!?

]]> By: dnorman http://www.darcynorman.net/2007/01/01/script-for-running-cron-on-all-sites-in-a-shared-drupal-instance/#comment-82868 dnorman Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 1689411003#comment-82868 yeah yeah... I could have written it in C, so I could run <code>./configure make make install</code> too :-) I just wanted to write the script and figured Ruby would be cool. Loosely joined and all that. It's just firing off a curl to a web interface anyway. It could have been written in Logo :-) yeah yeah… I could have written it in C, so I could run ./configure make make install too :-) I just wanted to write the script and figured Ruby would be cool. Loosely joined and all that. It’s just firing off a curl to a web interface anyway. It could have been written in Logo :-)

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