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Run individual cron jobs with Drush

Is it possible to run individual cron jobs via Drush? e.g. I have a cron job named "mycron". In the Esysia UI I can run that 1 job by clicking [run].

In drush, I can use the command "drush elysia-cron" but that will run all active cron jobs.

My Question: how can I run mycron (only) via drush?

Request: Make all cron jobs available in drush so "drush elysia-cron mycron" would work.

Solution

  • Here's how I am eval'ing my own cron hook.

    1) Find the appropriate hook_cron call in your module. modulename_cron is what you want.

    2) Figure out if any specific variables impact when it is run. In my case, there is a variable modulename_cron_last which tracks the last time the cron was run. I have to force this to 0 to get it to run.

    3) Run drush:

    drush eval "variable_set('modulename_cron_last', 0);"
drush eval "modulename_cron();"
drush eval "variable_set('modulename_cron_last', time());"

    OR

    If you use the 2.x DEV version for D7 this is possibile with command:

    drush elysia-cron run [JOB_NAME]
or:
drush elysia-cron run [JOB_NAME] --ignore-time

    (use --ignore-time to force execution)

    4) Make a script and add it to your scheduler (in my case, the actual local Linux crontab)