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Use it for questions about performing routine and other maintenance tasks in Drupal.

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Cron stopped running; logs say: "Attempting to re-run cron while it is already running."

The cron semaphore is probably locked. … You could try calling drupal_cron_cleanup() from anywhere in your code (that doesn't happen to be invoked by cron) and that should unlock your cron semaphore variable. …
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How to abort a cron run?

watchdog the message "Cron run completed". … Aborting your cron cycle mid-execution leaves you with no traces of how or when your cron finished. …
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How to edit every node of a content type on cron run?

hook_cron: It will get called on every cron run. … However, note that both loading and saving a node is an expensive process, and if you have a site with many nodes, your site would become very slow, unstable, or even unusable on every cron run (which …
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How to clear unused files from the database and the filesystem?

I don't think this is a very good idea. What guarantees you that because the file is currently not being used it will not be used in the future? Also, there are many reasonably priced hosts that offer …
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