Cron.PHP for Drupal?

[Matt]

well if you want to run it as the user and you have shell access then execute this from the commandline:

crontab -eu cpuser

Which will pull up the crontab editor for this cPanel user you have defined. Meaning "cpuser" is your cpanel username for the site that you want the cron setup for.

Then add something like this:

MAILTO=you@yourdomain.com
0 4 * * * php /home/cpuser/cron.php

The above assumes you have cron.php setup in the site root where the below could likely be used if the cron.php is in the web root, assuming that executing cron.php in a browser works...

MAILTO=you@yourdomain.com
0 4 * * * GET http://yourdomain.com/cron.php

Both of the above fire off the script at 4 AM server time and email the results to the address you specify in the "MAILTO" line.

[JohnMorris]

Matt,

Thanks for the helpful reply. I always think your replies may be helpful to others as well. You mentioned about shell access. I tried accessing for the first time my account via Putty, and had generated the keys. I have successfully used Putty in other SSH environments. But apparently I don't have shell access yet? Is this because of the nature of my account? Do I need to upgrade, or just request, or somehow turn on shell access? If this is documented somewhere, I'd be happy to read it, but didn't find it.

Thanks!

John