Cron Jobs -- not working anymore...?

[OneSizeFitsAll]

Since October 02 at midnight, ALL my "Databases' Back-up - Scheluded Cron Jobs" have stopped working.
I am puzzled :-)

To make sure CPanel was not the cause, I just upgraded CPanel to version "8.4.0-STABLE 92". No change.

All my Crons are structured like this:
(In this sample, the Cron is doing a database backup everyday at 15:00)

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PHP File
located in:
home/thiscustomer/crons/ThisDatabaseName_1500.php
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The content of this PHP file is:

#!/usr/bin/php -q

<? 
$today = date( "Ymd", time() ); 

$dumpcmd = "mysqldump -u thiscustomer_databaseUser 
-pdatabaseUserPassword --databases thiscustomer_ThisDatabaseName --opt | gzip > "; 
$dumpcmd .= "crons/ThisDatabaseName/1500/ThisDatabaseName.sql.gz"; 

system($dumpcmd); 
?>

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For calling this Script from inside CPanel, I have this in "Advanced (Unix Style):
php -q < ./crons/ThisDatabaseName_1500.php

I also tried this:
/usr/bin/php/home/thiscustomer/crons/ThisDatabaseName_1500.php

No success... ?

Thank you for your help.

Kind Regards,

cPanel.net Support Ticket Number:

[Damian]

We're seeing the same thing for one our PHP scripts. The cron job actually executes but it's the PHP script being run via the command line that doesn't.

We know the cron runs because we still receive the email notification, but instead of the body of the email message containing the results from the PHP script it just contains a text copy of the script itself.

If you try executing the script from a shell prompt you will see what I mean - the script will be displayed to the terminal instead of executing.

cPanel.net Support Ticket Number:

[OneSizeFitsAll]

Solution:

My expert came with this solution (~):

Replace this line:
$dumpcmd .= "crons/ThisDatabaseName/1500/ThisDatabaseName.sql.gz";

With this:
$dumpcmd .= "~/crons/ThisDatabaseName/1500/ThisDatabaseName.sql.gz";

Regards,

cPanel.net Support Ticket Number:

[zye]

here we have the same issue - php scripts running via cron just output the file itself

we use cacti to monitor - its also an php script has also stopped working and aslo our billing software which is also written in PHP.

Running: WHM 8.4.0 cPanel 8.4.0-S92
RedHat 8.0 - WHM X v2.1

PHP 4.3.1 (cli) (built: Jun 8 2003 13:18:38)

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Strange thing is on another server running
WHM 8.4.0 cPanel 8.4.0-S92
RedHat 7.3 - WHM X v2.1

PHP 4.3.0 (cli) (built: Feb 8 2003 21:44:21)

everything is running fine

We would need an urgent solution for this matter.

Thank you
ZYE

cPanel.net Support Ticket Number:

[OneSizeFitsAll]

...was working but not working anymore......?

Running: WHM 8.4.0 cPanel 8.4.0-S92
RedHat 8.0 - WHM X v2.2.4

PHP 4.3.2
MySQL version 4.0.15-standard

In need of a solution

Kind Regards,

cPanel.net Support Ticket Number:

[zye]

i found a solution - upgrade to php 4.3.3

and i also disabled automatic updates ( i only update security updates ) so this will not happen again

guess stable is "NOT" really stable

good luck

ps. stop apache when upgrading and chservd

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