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Cron (automatic tasks) setup

Setting Moodle up for run tasks automatically

  1. Login to server as root
  2. Open crontab

    crontab -e

  3. Add the below line to crontab (replacing moodlefolder with the actual Moodle folder)
*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/moodlefolder/admin/cli/cron.php >/dev/null

The above example will run the command every 5 min

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