CodeIgniter + Command Line + Cron + Cpanel
This was the answer:
Use /usr/local/bin/php instead of /usr/bin/php to get codeigniter to pick up on the URI segments.
Here is solution first you need to find path from phpinfo document_root path
php5 /home/abc/public_html/index.php folder_name controller_name function_name
It's 100% working
I'm glad you got it working Mike. I ran into similar problems and ended up using the CI Cron Job Bootstrapper on a recent project that was running on a cPanel host. I'm just posting this incase it helps someone else.