error : WRONG FILE OWNER (/var/spool/cron/$USER)

[aria_opensource]

I defined a new job in cronjobs menu (in cpanel) to run a php file each 5 minutes, but it doesn't run after 5 minutes.

*/5  * * *  /usr/local/bin/php /home/$USER/public_html/custom_script

whae i check CRON logs it shows bellow error :

crond[2095080]: ($USER) WRONG FILE OWNER (/var/spool/cron/$USER)

when i check above mentioned path , i can see that file owner is that user:

# ls -la /var/spool/cron/$USER

-rw-------   1 $USER   $USER    131 Jan 29 21:48 $USER

why defined CRON file doesnot run?

 

[hmaddy]

check with your username instead of $user

 

[aria_opensource]

I used $USER as an example, there is definitely a real user in the server.

 

[cPRex]

What about /var/spool/cron/ itself? That should look similar to this:

drwx------. 2 root root 4096 Jan 13 11:52 /var/spool/cron/

You can always keep working up the file path chain too, checking the ownership of /var and /var/spool, which should be the following:

drwxr-xr-x. 11 root root 4096 Oct  7 16:40 /var/spool/

drwxr-xr-x. 22 root root 4096 Jan 28 13:00 /var

 

[aria_opensource]

I check what you said
All permissions are just like your screen shots

 

[cPRex]

If you have root access to the server you're always welcome to submit a ticket to our team so we can check things out directly on the system experiencing the issue. If you do that, please post the ticket number here so I can follow along and keep this thread updated with our findings.