Cron (automatic tasks) setup

Setting Moodle up for run tasks automatically

Login to server as root

Open crontabcrontab -e

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