I have tried running a cron job in drupal 7.43 and civicrm 4.7.7 with no success. I have a scheduled job: Home » CiviCRM » Administer CiviCRM » Scheduled Jobs (Send Scheduled Mailings) with setting Run frequency "Every time cron job is run" (BTW the job runs if I use Execute now)(I have also set at 1 hour intervals) In Drupal; Home » Administration » Configuration » System > CRON it is set to run every hour and does so. I also can run it from the external URL. When I run the Drupal CRON it has no effect on the Civicrm scheduled job and Civicrm complains each time I log in to Civicrm; "Cron Not Running - Last cron run at May 16th, 2016 4:48 PM." which is the last time I executed it manually (Execute now). I am doing this as administrator with all permissions.
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You need to set a cron command on the server.
https://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Managing+Scheduled+Jobs
Something like
*/15 * * * * wget -O - -q -t 1 'http://mysite.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/cron.php?name=username&pass=password&key=site-key'
If you have set it, what is the exact cron command for CiviCRM you have set on the server (cpanel, directadmin ....)? (You can leave out the pwd)
answered May 22, 2016 at 10:13
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In the Cpanel from my host CRON documentation it gives an example "/home/user/public_html/index.php" . Can I use your example given above instead of this format? I have used the pass key from civicrm.settings.php located in /sites/default here is the command line: */5 * * * * wget -O - -q -t 1 'http://mysite.com/drupal/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/…– HockMay 22, 2016 at 22:45
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Please do no use the info from your civicrm.settings.php. You need to create a user in Drupal (e.g. civicron) and set a password to this user. The user must have enough permissions in CiviCRM to do the scheduled job. Use the name and password form this user for the cron call. Sep 19, 2016 at 13:12