[Owncloud] Controlling cron tasks

Bernhard Posselt nukeawhale at gmail.com
Wed Aug 14 21:28:49 UTC 2013


The news app uses a cache folder in the data directory for caching feeds. Maybe that's the problem

Torsten Seyffarth <t.seyffarth at gmx.de> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am using the latest version of OC on an OpenSuse 12.3 Server. I have 
>one system disk that contains the main file system and is running all 
>the time. Only some data including the data directory from OC is on a 
>separate RAID that goes inactive if nothing happens for 30 min, which is 
>most of the time for me.
>
>This worked fine until I wanted to use the News App. For this app I have 
>to switch from AJAX update method to cron, so the the news feeds can be 
>updated regularly. Unfortunately the RAID is never going to sleep then. 
>I guess it cannot be the news feeds, because they are stored in the 
>MySQL database, which is on the system disk. OC probably looks every 
>time if all files are still there, or something in that direction?
>
>Can somebody explain more detailed, what happens when cron.php is called 
>and if this behavior can be changed somehow, so e.g. that only the news 
>are updated and the files work as before?
>
>regards
>Torsten
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