Visvanath Ratnaweera

Hi

I am not talking of minimum requirements. (What is the weakest CPU Moodle would run?) I am talking of hardware resources and system software. Quoting https://moodle.org/mod/forum/post.php?forum=94:
Please include as much background information as possible about your hardware, the operating system, the web server, the database server, the PHP scripting framework, etc. If your machine is virtualized, also mention the host hardware, the operating system, the virtualization technology used and the resources assigned to the virtual machine. If you use a hosting service, mention either the hosting provider and the package or the resources as advertised.

Moodle is not known to have that kind of problems of its own. So the question is, on what kind of platform does it run? I mean the kind of hosting, the resources, the system software, etc. For more, read https://moodle.org/mod/forum/post.php?forum=94.

Oh yes, that was a highly refined statement. I hope it boils down to "many thousends are requesting a particular feature". See the morale here: http://developers.slashdot.org/story/15/07/29/2215216/how-developers-can-fight-creeping-mediocrity.

They may be supportng Linux hosting but the ASP in the name was suspicious so I checked.
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Hi

This kind of updates are valuable for others who are having the same problem.

If I may add a few clarifications in Moodle- resp. Unix-speak:
- NOT doing 1. You are right. If you plan to call the cron.php from within the system, the path is $moodle/admin/cli/cron.php. But then don't need the web(HTTP)-based cron.php, which is $moodle/admin/cron.php. See https://docs.moodle.org/29/en/Cron.

- NOT doing 2. /bin/usr/php (shouldn't it be /usr/bin/php?) is not a prefix. It is the program which is kicked by cron, in this case it is the PHP interpreter. See the Moodle Doc mentioned earlier.

- NOT doing 3. It is the web-based cron.php which is password protected. Since you make use of the CLI cron.php, you don't have to worry about this password.

I think it is the /usr/bin/php in place of the /bin/sh (or /bin/bash or whatever) in your cron table which solved the problem.