I could not get a decent answer from the Drupal

Drupal

An open-source content management system that is used on this site and is taking over the world. siteA logically grouped set of content - also web site. on setting up the Cron jobs that it keeps complaining about. Nor would my hosting support people help ("That's a user problem...").

My hosting provider does not allow me to have Shell access (probably a wise move). But they do provide the more-or-less-standard cPanel function. On my version, the "Cron" entry is in the lower left.

I also had WebCalendar installed on one of my sites. When I went to cPanel, I noticed that WebCalendar had a command already set up. Modifying it a bit, this is what I came up with to put in:

cd '/home/username/public_html/' ; php -q 'cron.php';

Note that username is my host's user ID for domain management and my Drupal

Drupal

An open-source content management system that is used on this site and is taking over the world. installation is in my "root" folder (actually "public_htmlHyperText Markup Language - the coding standard for a web page.").

This worked for getting Cron run, but did generate some error messages.

I was happy that Cron ran, but a bit concerned about those messages. So I did some searching on the Drupal

Drupal

An open-source content management system that is used on this site and is taking over the world. siteA logically grouped set of content - also web site. and came up with several posts of the same messages, but no solutions. So I posted again. This time someone saw it through.

They suggested using WGET, but I don't have shell access. But I did, for some reason, check the "Advanced" mode on cPanel again. I noticed that there was now a helpful hint there (of course in a small font). It said to use GET http://nanwich.info/cron.php (obviously, use your own URL). I did and the error messages went away and Cron is working great!

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For Cron jobs another possibility is http://drupal.org/project/poormanscron

For every page view, this moduleAn add-on, or extension, to Drupal to provide additional functionality; written in PHP. checks to see if the last Cron run was more than 1 hour ago (this period is configurable). If so, the Cron hooks are executed, and Drupal

Drupal

An open-source content management system that is used on this site and is taking over the world. is happy. These Cron hooks fire after all HTMLHyperText Markup Language - the coding standard for a web page. is returned to the browser, so the user who kicks off the Cron jobs should not notice any delay.