Clarification Regarding Cron Jobs & Setup/Config

  • take a look at cron.sh
  • it starts busybox crond
  • which in turn executes crontab of user www-data /var/spool/cron/crontabs/www-data which means cron.php runs every 5 minutes
*/5 * * * * php -f /var/www/html/cron.php