Once you have the cron working normally then you should try and lock it down further. The risk of running a cron job as root is that someone could change or find a way of adding system commands to runcronjobs.php and these would then be run on your system as root user.
Note. The xxx was a directory where you have your project the xxuser is a user that has bash or a full shell access.
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