Drupal 6 - Create cron in Cpanel

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To add a cron for your Drupal site in Cpanel, you need to access your Cpanel, locate Advanced then click on Cron jobs. If you don't see Advanced or Cron jobs contact your host to see if it can be added.

Click on Advanced - Enter the time frame you want the cron to run by placing a number in the appropriate box(s). In the example above it's set to run every 1 minute. You might want to do this to make sure it is running, however unless there is a reason for it to run that often typical sits are fine running cron once or twice a day. Many sites run them every hour. I've set mine to once a day currently. There are many other options for this, and if security is an issue you might want to continue reading at drupal.org

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