Setting up a Magento Cron

How to setup a cron for Magento

This assumes that you are setting the cron up for a Magento store in your web root, if you have your magento hosted in a subdirectory you'll need to add the name of the subdirectorie(s) immediately before "cron.php".

Step 1 : Login to your Hosting Control Panel
Step 2 : Navigate to your Domain panel
Step 3 : Click on "Crontab" (Plesk 8) or "Scheduled Tasks" (Plesk 9)
Step 4 : Choose the user that the cron will run as. This should always be your primary ftp user (not a web_user)).
Step 5 : Click on "Preferences" and enter a notification email address. You'll only receive an email if the cron fails.
Step 6 : You should be back on the page that lists your existing cron's, click on "Schedule a Task"
Step 7 : Fill in the many boxes!

The Minute box should be set to */10 (This means run every 10 minutes)
The Hour box should contain a * (This means run every hour)
The Day of Month box should contain a * (Run every day... I think you're getting it!)
The Month box should contain a *
The Day of Week box should contain a *

And finally the command box should contain the following code :