The Magento Expert http://www.the-mage-expert.com Your Magento Commerce Expert Tue, 24 Jan 2023 09:37:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.6 Setting running status correctly in Magento 1.4 http://www.the-mage-expert.com/352/setting-running-status-correctly-magento1-4/ http://www.the-mage-expert.com/352/setting-running-status-correctly-magento1-4/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 10:07:21 +0000 http://www.the-mage-expert.com/?p=352 The setting of the running status in the cron_schedule table in Magento 1.4 is not working correctly. The code in Magento 1.4 is not 100% correct. Create a local copy of Mage_Cron_Model_Observer and take a look at the dispatch function:

$schedule->setExecutedAt(strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', time()))->save();

The status should also be saved here, not just the execution time. Change the code from the above to the below:

$schedule->setStatus(Mage_Cron_Model_Schedule::STATUS_RUNNING)->setExecutedAt(strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', time()))->save();

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<config>
    <crontab>
        <jobs>
            <some_unique_job_code>
                <schedule>
                    <!-- every minute for example -->
                    <cron_expr>*/1 * * * *</cron_expr>
                </schedule>
                <run>
                    <model>module/observer::functionToRun</model>
                </run>
            </some_unique_job_code>
        </jobs>
    </crontab>
</config>

Thats the first step. Once that was done, you have to manually or automatically run cron.php. Its in your stores root directory. After running cron.php, you should see entries mathcing your new job in the cron_schedule table.

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