Running individual cron commands in Drupal 7

Aug 3, 2015 · 1 minute read · Comments
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It took me some searching, but it seems this is the best way to run a single cron command, in this case the scheduler cron job to publish and depublish content:

* * * * *  drush --root=$HOME/httpdocs eval "scheduler_cron();"

It’s safe to run this every minute and leave the normal cron job to run every hour:

0 * * * * /usr/bin/flock -w 0 $HOME/.cron.lock drush --quiet --root=$HOME/httpdocs --uri=http://www.example.org cron

In an upcoming blog post I’ll explain why running a full cron every minute is a bad idea.