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Drupal Cron Job

Diagnosing And Fixing Drupal Cron Job Errors

Drupal IconDrupal is an excellent open-source CMS but at the same time a bit harder to get hold off when things get bad without fairly advanced Drupal knowledge, recently I upgraded this blog from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 and after making the site live with upgrade the Drupal cron-job started failing as evident in the picture below (the cron is setupped to run every six hours but it failed to do so).

Failed Cron Job In Drupal

Strangely enough running cron manually showed a 404, Page Not Found error, having tried everything from fixing cron commands to playing with cron.php file-permissions finally I found the reason of failed cron-jobs by having look at 'Drupal Log' which was showing error 'Cron run exceeded the time limit and was aborted.'

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