Hi Guys,
For the benefit of those reaching this thread in the future:
The moodle we were using had been progressively upgraded from a version well before moodle v2.5
It seems that from moodle 2.6 onwards all the cron tasks can be managed from within the moodle and when the server runs the cron job, previously, where a task failed, it would stop all remaining cron tasks from being performed, whereas now that isn't the case. Trouble is that the server logs say that cron has been completed successfully, but it doesn't report if any of the individual tasks failed to run.
When we looked at the cron task in moodle, the legacy cron task wasn't running, and this seems to have been the key issue.
We also found that the table local_reminders, required by the 'Event_Reminders' plugin wasn't present. I'm not convinced that was the case though as I had checked the tables the day before.
Anyhow, we got 'event reminders' running so I can confirm that it does in fact work in moodle version 2.8
Peter
