Using Cron with Drupal and Cpanel

Submitted by Drupal on Fri, 10/17/2008 - 22:59

So, I need to research this to figure out what the heck is going on in this little script and how it works, but in the mean time - just for me and you - here is what works:

cd '/home/sitename/public_html' ; php -q 'cron.php' > /dev/null 2>&1

but this also works (I have this on another site):

php /home/sitename/public_html/cron.php

Here is a nice tutorial: http://www.trap17.com/index.php/cron-jobs-cron-jobs-cpanel_t6321.html, the basic syntax (taken from the tutorial) is:
[ Minute - Hour - Day - Month - Weekday ] [PATH OF PHP] [ARGUMENTS] [PATH OF PHP SCRIPT]