Just to add, in case you wonder why lynx or wget or curl but not php, notice what the Handbook says in http://drupal.org/cron, in the paragraph starting with "Note that it is essential to access cron.php using a browser". A domain name and not a file path must be specified, so that Drupal can figure out which site's database to access.

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:07 PM, sander-martijn lists@severeddreams.com wrote:

try

17 * * * * /usr/bin/lynx -source http://example.com/cron.php

or

17 * * * * /usr/bin/wget -O - -q http://example.com/cron.php

Shai Gluskin wrote:

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Fellow Drupallers,

Cron isn't working.

This is the job I have set up:

17 * * * * /usr/bin/php -q /home/<account_name>/public_html/cron.php

(account_name is replaced with the actual account name.)

I'm using cpanel x3 advanced pane set-up.

At 17 minutes after every hour I get the automated e-mail cron report telling me that the script was unable to access the database.

When I go to: /admin/logs/status, not surprisingly, cron has not been run.

When I navigate via a browser to: example.com/cron.php http://example.com/cron.php cron runs normally and is reported as such

...

in /admin/logs/status.

Other cron jobs in different accounts (also Drupal installations) on the same server are working fine.

I'm running Drupal 5.7.

Thanks for the help.

Shai content2zero http://content2zero.com

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