Chris Searle

Normally you can call the drupal cron page (/cron.php) as the anonymous user - but - to work around an issue with the simplenews module and taxonomy access control I need to run the cron script as a logged in user.

You need to do three things (for drupal 5 - I used to be able to start at step 2 for drupal 4).

1. Grab the root page to get the PHPSESSID cookie
2. Login to associate your cookie with a logged in session
3. Call the script you want - in this case cron.php

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To avoid having to set up multiple cron lines - here's a script that will read your drupal install(s) and call cron on each one found.

Not sure where I saw the code (rss feed) - but the comment was present in the downloaded code - so thats a pointer to where it starts.

Changes I've made - the dir match is changed from ** to * so that it will follow symlinks. It also handles multiple drupal installs. Timeout wrapping added - one of my sites takes a long while to return.

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