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What causes Drupal 5 to run a cron job?

I know about cron.php. Are there any other ways in which cron is likely to be called? For instance are there any core or commonly used modules that call it?

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Poormanscron is the most common module used for calling cron within Drupal (integrated into core in D7).

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  • Why is poormanscron needed for Drupal 5 if you aren't hitting cron.php from a crontab?
    – mpdonadio
    Jul 11, 2013 at 2:53
  • Poormanscron is an alternative to setting up a crontab that will cause cron to run when the site is accessed by a visitor after a predetermined interval. Jul 11, 2013 at 4:02

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