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How to know the business of all of Adhoc and schedule tasks

by hang dong - Wednesday, February 17, 2021, 11:24 PM

Hi all,

Because my moodle site has been skipped setting up the cron process on the server for 1 year.

So, if enabled cron, have any problem with data and system exist?

Is there any document to mention the business of tasks? I think I can measure the impact of cron on the current system if I know the business of tasks.

Thanks,

Re: How to know the business of all of Adhoc and schedule tasks

by Tim Hunt - Thursday, February 18, 2021, 5:14 AM

In the Moodle admin menu, Admin -> Server -> Tasks -> Scheduled tasks. - lists all the tasks.

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Re: How to know the business of all of Adhoc and schedule tasks

by hang dong - Thursday, February 18, 2021, 10:28 AM

Hi Tim Hunt,

Yes, I can see list of scheduled tasks by the way. But, I want to know detail purpose of every task ( delete items in recycle bin after how many days, what data is sync, ...) instead of reading code for each task and getting information. Moodle has a lot of tasks.

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Re: How to know the business of all of Adhoc and schedule tasks

by Tim Hunt - Thursday, February 18, 2021, 6:17 PM

I think that the only way to be certain what each task does is to check the code. Where that screen shows a task name like \auth_db\task\sync_users, then you can find the code for that in auth/db/classes/task/sync_users.php. If you are lucky, there will be a comment at the top of that file saying what the task does. If you are unlucky, you well need to read the code.

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