You will not need root access, but you will need shell access to run the job runner service. In theory you should be able to just put runJobs in cron, the job runner will just run things sooner and with more parallelism (if necessary).
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Temlakos <[email protected]> wrote: > That sounds like something a root-access admin needs to install. I've > asked quite enough favors of my Web hosts without adding another one. Are > you sure this is the only way to get jobs run when setting #wgJobRunRate to > zero? Why shouldn't I set up a cron job to run every hour on the hour? > > Temlakos > > > On 09/28/2015 06:43 PM, Erik Bernhardson wrote: > >> I think what you are looking for is the job runner service. This is >> available at: >> >> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GJOB/ >> >> >> Both the redisJobChronService, which handles delayed jobs, and the >> redisJobRunnerService, which handles jobs ready to run need to be used. >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Temlakos <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> What's this instruction all about, on the page: >>> >>> >>> >>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_family#Multiple_wikis_sharing_common_resources >>> >>> They're telling me to set $wgJobRunRate to zero. But they don't say >>> whether it should stay that way permanently. Now if it does, that means >>> one >>> of us has to get into the Secure Shell, cd to maintenance, and execute >>> php >>> runJobs.php at least once every twenty-four hours. Or more frequently. >>> >>> To whomever wrote that part of the manual (this is about installing a >>> family of wikis sharing media resources): are you sure you want to tell >>> wikifamily admins to do that? Or to set up a big cron job to execute a >>> bash >>> script? If so, how often would you recommend that, and at what time (say, >>> with reference to UTC or to the most likely anticipated geographical >>> cluster of users)? >>> >>> Temlakos >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MediaWiki-l mailing list >>> To unsubscribe, go to: >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> To unsubscribe, go to: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
