Not sure if this should run as User  "root" or "www-data"

also: What does the Magento Cron job that is set up by default do?

Now to check to see if it is running.  Must be some sort of a toggle test or something.

Thanks for the note on this.

I just turned on cron logs in Webmin, so that may help.

I have tried to create a manual cron job in Webmin and Magento is not allowing it.

It could be that there are ohter controls in the TKL magento cron file:

#!/bin/bash

/usr/bin/php /var/www/magento/cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1

Not sure why bin/bash is there.  It also appears to be commented out.  If I run the last line as its own command manually I get in webmin:

No output generated

Nothing shows up in the cron log (accessible via webmin)..

I may get the following in my Apache Error log, but the time seems out of kilter:  perhaps London time.

[Thu Dec 01 23:17:44 2011] [error] [client 10.10.10.163] client denied by server configuration: /var/www/magento/app/etc/local.xml

(perhaps local.xml is wanting the DNS to match and the above is the DMZ address not the Domain IP itself...  would seem strange, but perhaps)..  let me see if DNS rewrites are happening.

If I try to run cron.sh directly from the Browser I get it wanting to download...  and if I go open it it is reading like this:

#!/bin/sh
# location of the php binary
if [ ! "$1" = "" ] ; then
CRONSCRIPT=$1
else
CRONSCRIPT=cron.php
fi

PHP_BIN=`which php`

# absolute path to magento installation
INSTALLDIR=`echo $0 | sed 's/cron\.sh//g'`

#    prepend the intallation path if not given an absolute path
if [ "$INSTALLDIR" != "" -a "`expr index $CRONSCRIPT /`" != "1" ];then
    if ! ps auxwww | grep "$INSTALLDIR""$CRONSCRIPT" | grep -v grep 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null ; then
    $PHP_BIN "$INSTALLDIR""$CRONSCRIPT" &
    fi
else
    if  ! ps auxwww | grep " $CRONSCRIPT" | grep -v grep | grep -v cron.sh 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null ; then
        $PHP_BIN $CRONSCRIPT &
    fi
fi

If I run Magento's cron.php from the browser I don't see anything in the log, on the screen or anywhere.  It does appear to take some time and "do something", but again, no apache or cron logs.  I will look for some Magento cron logs...

This all feels like TKL is handling cron ok, but not so sure about Magento.  Perhaps Magento has its own Cron, and TKL has another and they are/or are not getting along.

thoughts on this one?