#0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /usr/bin/php /home/virtual/site307/fst/var/www/html/moodle/admin/cron.php
*/5 * * * * cd /home/virtual/site307/fst/var/www/html/moodle/admin; /usr/bin/php cron.php
Moodle is installed in the html folder in a folder called moodle. So the index pulls a webpage and you link from the index.html into moodle, index.php.
I am completely stumped.
the following is the cron.php itself if this helps
#! /usr/bin/php
<?PHP // $Id: cron.php,v 1.68 2005/05/17 00:18:37 martinlanghoff Exp $
/// This script looks through all the module directories for cron.php files
/// and runs them. These files can contain cleanup functions, email functions
/// or anything that needs to be run on a regular basis.
///
/// This file is best run from cron on the host system (ie outside PHP).
/// The script can either be invoked via the web server or via a standalone
/// version of PHP compiled for CGI.
///
/// eg wget -q -O /dev/null 'http://moodle.somewhere.edu/admin/cron.php'
/// or php /web/moodle/admin/cron.php
$starttime = microtime();
/// The following is a hack necessary to allow this script to work well
/// from the command line.
define('FULLME', 'cron');
/// The current directory in PHP version 4.3.0 and above isn't necessarily the
/// directory of the script when run from the command line. The require_once()
/// would fail, so we'll have to chdir()
if (!isset($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) && isset($_SERVER['argv'][0])) {
chdir(dirname($_SERVER['argv'][0]));
}
require_once("../config.php");
if (!$alreadyadmin = isadmin()) {
unset($_SESSION['USER']);
unset($USER);
unset($_SESSION['SESSION']);
unset($SESSION);
$USER = get_admin(); /// Temporarily, to provide environment for this script
}
//unset test cookie, user must login again anyway
setcookie('MoodleSessionTest'.$CFG->sessioncookie, '', time() - 3600, '/');
/// Start output log
$timenow = time();
mtrace("
");
mtrace("Server Time: ".date('r',$timenow)."\n\n");
/// Run all cron jobs for each module
mtrace("Starting activity modules");
if ($mods = get_records_select("modules", "cron > 0 AND (($timenow - lastcron) > cron)")) {
foreach ($mods as $mod) {
$libfile = "$CFG->dirroot/mod/$mod->name/lib.php";
if (file_exists($libfile)) {
include_once($libfile);
$cron_function = $mod->name."_cron";
if (function_exists($cron_function)) {
mtrace("Processing module function $cron_function ...", '');
if ($cron_function()) {
if (! set_field("modules", "lastcron", $timenow, "id", $mod->id)) {
mtrace("Error: could not update timestamp for $mod->fullname");
}
}
mtrace("done.");
}
}
}
}
mtrace("Finished activity modules");
if (!empty($CFG->langcache)) {
mtrace('Updating languages cache');
get_list_of_languages();
}
/// Run all core cron jobs, but not every time since they aren't too important.
/// These don't have a timer to reduce load, so we'll use a random number
/// to randomly choose the percentage of times we should run these jobs.
srand ((double) microtime() * 10000000);
$random100 = rand(0,100);
if ($random100 < 20) { // Approximately 20% of the time.
mtrace("Running clean-up tasks...");
/// Unenrol users who haven't logged in for $CFG->longtimenosee
if ($CFG->longtimenosee) { // value in days
$longtime = $timenow - ($CFG->longtimenosee * 3600 * 24);
if ($students = get_users_longtimenosee($longtime)) {
foreach ($students as $student) {
if (unenrol_student($student->userid, $student->course)) {
mtrace("Deleted student enrolment for user $student->userid from course $student->course");
}
}
}
}
/// Delete users who haven't confirmed within required period
$oneweek = $timenow - ($CFG->deleteunconfirmed * 3600);
if ($users = get_users_unconfirmed($oneweek)) {
foreach ($users as $user) {
if (delete_records("user", "id", $user->id)) {
mtrace("Deleted unconfirmed user for ".fullname($user, true)." ($user->id)");
}
}
}
flush();
/// Delete old logs to save space (this might need a timer to slow it down...)
if (!empty($CFG->loglifetime)) { // value in days
$loglifetime = $timenow - ($CFG->loglifetime * 3600 * 24);
delete_records_select("log", "time < '$loglifetime'");
}
flush();
/// Delete old cached texts
if (!empty($CFG->cachetext)) { // Defined in config.php
$cachelifetime = time() - $CFG->cachetext;
delete_records_select("cache_text", "timemodified < '$cachelifetime'");
}
flush();
if (!empty($CFG->notifyloginfailures)) {
notify_login_failures();
}
flush();
sync_metacourses();
} // End of occasional clean-up tasks
if (!isset($CFG->disablescheduledbackups)) { // Defined in config.php
//Execute backup's cron
//Perhaps a long time and memory could help in large sites
@set_time_limit(0);
@raise_memory_limit("128M");
if (file_exists("$CFG->dirroot/backup/backup_scheduled.php") and
file_exists("$CFG->dirroot/backup/backuplib.php") and
file_exists("$CFG->dirroot/backup/lib.php") and
file_exists("$CFG->libdir/blocklib.php")) {
include_once("$CFG->dirroot/backup/backup_scheduled.php");
include_once("$CFG->dirroot/backup/backuplib.php");
include_once("$CFG->dirroot/backup/lib.php");
require_once ("$CFG->libdir/blocklib.php");
mtrace("Running backups if required...");
if (! schedule_backup_cron()) {
mtrace("ERORR: Something went wrong while performing backup tasks!!!");
} else {
mtrace("Backup tasks finished.");
}
}
}
if (!empty($CFG->enablerssfeeds)) { //Defined in admin/variables page
include_once("$CFG->libdir/rsslib.php");
mtrace("Running rssfeeds if required...");
if ( ! cron_rss_feeds()) {
mtrace("Something went wrong while generating rssfeeds!!!");
} else {
mtrace("Rssfeeds finished");
}
}
/// Run the enrolment cron, if any
require_once("$CFG->dirroot/enrol/$CFG->enrol/enrol.php");
$enrol = new enrolment_plugin();
$enrol->cron();
if (!empty($enrol->log)) {
mtrace($enrol->log);
}
//Unset session variables and destroy it
@session_unset();
@session_destroy();
mtrace("Cron script completed correctly");
$difftime = microtime_diff($starttime, microtime());
mtrace("Execution took ".$difftime." seconds");
?>