[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #4566: Cron Not Getting Called (fsockopen failing)

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#4566: Cron Not Getting Called (fsockopen failing)
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 Reporter:  chewblocka             |        Owner:  Nazgul     
     Type:  defect                 |       Status:  assigned   
 Priority:  normal                 |    Milestone:  2.3 (trunk)
Component:  Administration         |      Version:  2.2.1      
 Severity:  normal                 |   Resolution:             
 Keywords:  cron future has-patch  |  
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Comment (by Otto42):

 The reason for this fsockopen is to make the wp-cron.php file execute
 asynchronously, correct? There's other ways to do that, perhaps the
 program should try some of those other ways as well if one fails.

 You could use [http://us.php.net/pcntl_fork pcntl_fork] to do it, if the
 PHP process is not running as an Apache module. Fortunately, pcntl_fork
 gives you feedback when it won't work (return value of -1).

 Alternately, if nothing else works, you could just include the wp-cron.php
 file and make it run that way. Yes, it won't be asynchronous, but at least
 it'll work.

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