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Content Management System usually require regular background job to be run periodically. For example, the well known CMS Drupal require periodical call to the cron.php for some feature to function normal. These kind of job is usually been setup using cron job management in CPanel. It is easy to do cause CPanel comes with the easy job management system for managing background running task.

It is at the advanced section on the CPanel main page.

When we click the 'Cron jobs', there 're two option we could choose to configure periodical task:

I suggest use the 'Standard' option if you 're not a linux/unix guru.

Configure using 'Standard' mode

Standard mode is easy to understand:

First we have to enter the 'Command to run' a the top of the graph.

For drupal cron.php, just enter the following at the 'Command to run' seciton:

lynx -source http://yourdomain/cron.php

Then we will have to specify at which month (Jan-Dec) and what day of the month (1-31) and what time of the day(0-23) to run the command. Each selection also comes with the 'Every Month' or 'Everyday' or 'Every Hour' option.

Configure using 'Advanced(Unix Style)' mode

The advanced mode is very similiar to the setting of the UNIX server cron system If you 're familiar with UNIX , CPanel also provide this kind of setting for advanced user.

Just remember the asterisk * stand for the word 'Every' and It is much quicker to setup jobs using the advanced mode!