I setup a cronjob under cPanel for my auction site. This cronjob is scheduled to run once a day. But I sometimes receive error reporting via email:

/bin/sh: line 1: /home/username/public_html/cron/cron1.php: Permission denied

Since the cron is setup to run ONCE a day and I am not getting this error everyday, I am not sure if the cronjob is setup properly.

The original cron command in the auction program manual is:


Since it gave me constant errors, I use this instead:


Please help.

Let me make sure that I fully understand. Are you running the command like this?

I used the above as stated in the manual but constantly got error report from the cron daemon.

So I changed to

With the above, I sometimes received Permission Denied error report.

Someone suggested this