TF-1 Technology Blog

Cron is a powerful core feature of drupal which provides the ability to have modules run heavy tasks on the website’s background. Any module can use this feature by implementing the hook_cron() function. Many contributed modules use this for implementing tasks such as mailing out newsletters, cleaning logs and importing dynamic material to the website. [...]

A webmaster’s day may involve doing a series of repeated tasks, like checking servers’ vital statistics, rotating server access logs, gathering visitor data and what-nots. To keep things simple and in control it is essential to use cron to manage these tasks. What it does is this daemon will perform tasks according to the times [...]