Cron Jobs - Not Performing Them :-(

[Mick007]

Hi Guys,

Need a little help here please. Iv setup a cron job to run every 5mins. Yea i know, EVERY 5MINS. But it has to be ran every 5 mins because of the service i offer.

Iv put the details as this:

php -q /home/tosms/public_html/autosms/check_email.php

and done it for every 5mins but it just doesnt seem to run it. I also dont get any email from the log of the cron.

Can anyone help me out please.

 

[dwh2]

What happens when you run it from the command line? Does it work?
Make sure you try it from the command line as the same user that will run the cron.

 

[cPanelKenneth]

try using the fully-qualified path to the PHP binary.

 

[HostIt]

Also, be sure you have actually set it correctly to run every 5 minutes.

I only say this because I just had the identical problem myself. After some digging around I discovered that at some point I had accidentally set the "hour" number also. The combination I had given meant that the cron job never ran. To be sure, your cron job should look something like this (or with the full path to php as suggested by cpanelkenneth):

*/5 * * * * php -q /home/tosms/public_html/autosms/check_email.php