Cronjob doesn´t work

[dnagency]

Hello,

I kept trying to run a cronjob now for hours and hadn´t been able to. Hopefully someone of you can help me on that

Here is the cronjob lines I used:

10 * * * * wget -O /dev/null http://www.mydomain.com/script.php
10 * * * * php /home/myaccount/public_html/script.php

both lines work fine when being started from putty, but they don´t work when trying to use them as a cronjob. script.php ist just a simple php script fetching data from a mysql and sending it to a mailbox.

Does anyone of you know where the problem could be?

[DalQuest]

Hello,

I kept trying to run a cronjob now for hours and hadn´t been able to. Hopefully someone of you can help me on that

Here is the cronjob lines I used:

10 * * * * wget -O /dev/null http://www.mydomain.com/script.php
10 * * * * php /home/myaccount/public_html/script.php

both lines work fine when being started from putty, but they don´t work when trying to use them as a cronjob. script.php ist just a simple php script fetching data from a mysql and sending it to a mailbox.

Does anyone of you know where the problem could be?

Have you checked the cron log to see if the two entries are actually being run and if so, any errors? Also, what file did you add those entries to and what OS you running cpanel on?

-D-

[dnagency]

thx for the reply

to answer the questions:

I didn´t add those entries to a file but used the cpanel feature to setup the crons (I only put it here the "unix"-format so it´s easier to see who they are setup

I checked those files:

var/spool/cron/account
the crons are visible there in that format:
MAILTO="account"
* 15 * * * wget -O /dev/null http://www.domain.com/script.php
* 15 * * * php /home/account/public_html/script.php



var/log/cron
no error logged there, only the actions I did when trying to setup the crons (using cpanel to do so) like e.g.:

....
May 3 14:35:02 myserver crontab[23482]: (account) REPLACE (account)
May 3 14:37:53 myserver crontab[23686]: (account) LIST (account)
May 3 14:37:53 myserver crontab[23688]: (account) LIST (account)
May 3 14:49:57 myserver crontab[24383]: (account) BEGIN EDIT (account)
....

So it basically seems as if the crons would simply not being started somehow at the time given... as mentioned the script for sure works (works fine on putty - both methods)...

Are there any other files I should check?

[sawbuck]

Might try adding the path to php and wget.

[dnagency]

what path is php and wget usually in at standard cpanel setup? (I am not really much into server admin I have to admit ). But if that was the problem wouldn´t that as well lead to the scripts not working in putty as well when writing them there without the path? But in putty it works...

I forgot to mention in my post before that I am using Redhad Linux 9 (since I was asked for it)

best regards, dna

[sawbuck]

Try /usr/bin/php and /usr/bin/wget

[dnagency]

tried... same results thx for trying to help me though

[sawbuck]

Looking over your posts can see you have changed from 10 * * * * to * 15 * * *.

If you want every 15 minutes using the second example then do: * /15 * * * *.

Also can try /usr/local/bin/php -q /home/myaccount/public_html/script.php

[dnagency]

well I changed since I wanted the job to run every minute on hour 15 just to check wether it would do anything at all (while it hadn´t in fact)...

tried the other example as well... still no result...

[DalQuest]

well I changed since I wanted the job to run every minute on hour 15 just to check wether it would do anything at all (while it hadn´t in fact)...

tried the other example as well... still no result...

Just for fun, put them in the main root cron file and see if it runs. On my test CentOS box with cpanel the file is /var/spool/cron/root

Check the logfile to see if they run from there.

-D-

[sawbuck]

Might also confirm that crond is actually running:
ps -ax | grep crond

[dnagency]

For crond I receive that (using putty at root access):
19393 pts/0 D 0:00 grep crond


I put the crons in root´s crontable, but still no effect...

best regards, dna

[DalQuest]

For crond I receive that (using putty at root access):
19393 pts/0 D 0:00 grep crond


I put the crons in root´s crontable, but still no effect...

best regards, dna

Ok, going back and looking at your original post, I noticed something.

MAILTO="account" <----------------------------- what is this and is it in your cron file?
* 15 * * * wget -O /dev/null http://www.domain.com/script.php

-D-

[dnagency]

it´s in the cronfile of that account, appearantly created by Cpanel - as far as I know it´s for that: In case the script gives an output, it would send to the mail specified there the output...

but that´s e.g. not in my root´s cron and there it doesn´t work as well... so I guess that should not be the prob

[dnagency]

finally works!!! ))))

obviously it had been the crond... gave it a try, writing that in putty: "crond"

after that when doing that check you mentioned, sawbuck, it would give back that then:
21067 ? S 0:00 crond
21077 pts/0 D 0:00 grep crond

And now all of a sudden the crons work (no mather wether with wget or php).

Thx a lot to all of you guys helping me out on that one


best regards, dna