The 6 hour cron delay

Many functions on the SourceForge web site affect accounts on other SourceForge machines. This includes all functions relating to mail aliases, shell passwords, user additions, group member changes, cvs repository creation, etc.

Updates to these other systems happen via cron 4 times per day, so changes made on the web site will appear to be live, but will not take effect until the next cron update.

The 'cron job' is actually several crons across several machines, which takes several minutes to process, so the cron job counter on the main documentation page is approximate.

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