I setup several cron jobs to make things work. laravel scheduler works perfectly but my other cronjobs not working at all.
*/2 * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/cronjobs/index.php
when I run on the console /usr/bin/php /var/www/cronjobs/index.php it works properly. I checked executable php path with which php and gives me /usr/bin/php nothing wrong with path afaik. I tried to run php script as apache user www-data I opened crontab with crontab -u www-data -e and paste command there.. it didn't work too.
I also tried send dummy notify with crontab and it also didn't work either
dummy example
* * * * * /usr/bin/notify-send 'test'
both of them doesn't work. What am I missing here ?
The second command will not send notification as cron have no idea of your desktop environment.
The first command probably use some environment variables. So instead of run in command line you can try to create a script:
#!/bin/bash
source /path/to/user/home/.bashrc #you can try also .bash_profile
/usr/bin/php /var/www/cronjobs/index.php
and your cron to be like:
*/2 * * * * /path/to/script.sh
Related
I hava a php-email (phpmailer 5.2.14) script which work fine when I run it in bash:
pi#schnickschnack: php /var/www/html/email.php
when i run this script with cron (sudo crontab -e):
*/1 * * * * root php /var/www/html/email.php
syslog says...
Jan 22 08:53:01 Schnickschnack CRON[4482]: (root) CMD (root php /var/www/html/email.php)
...but I get no mail.
I have another php-script which works fine with crontab. this script inserts values from phpmodbus into a mysql-db...
does anyone have a hint why the mail-script does not work with cron?
try
* * * * * php /var/www/html/email.php
otherwise, cron tries to execute the command "root", which is not a command.
As you are running by cron, all your usual $PATH and ENV are not available.
So CRON has no idea where to find "php".
Depending on your install - determine location of the PHP bin:
which php
use the resulting path in your cronjob. eg:
*/1 * * * * /bin/php /var/www/html/email.php
** Unless intended, dont leave the email.php script where it could be run "unintentionally" by anyone simple hitting the webserver. email.php is certainly on script kiddies hit list.
On CentOS release 6.5 (Final):
I know that usually I just need to use the following command in crontab to run a php script.
0 * * * * /usr/local/bin/php absolute_path_file_to_the_script.php
But, recently, it stopped working. The only work around is to use the following command
0 * * * * /usr/local/bin/php absolute_path_file_to_the_script.php > log
But I would rather not to output anything to log for now.
So, I even tried
0 * * * * /bin/sh -c "/usr/local/bin/php absolute_path_file_to_the_script.php"
But the above commend is again not working in crontab (it works if I type in the shell directly).
And I am sure that the above command did run in crontab for a second with
ps ux, and then it stopped executing.
Any ideas on how to run the command properly without logging?
Try run that command (only php, without cron settings) from terminal and show result
Both answers from Marc and Greg work:
> /dev/null
or
> /dev/null 2>&1
I've been at this for hours and have tried everything with no luck.
I am basically trying to run this http://docs.phpservermonitor.org/en/latest/install.html#setting-up-a-cronjob
I'm using MAMP and my localhost is a custom folder under User/username/localhost/servercheck
What I've tried so far is.
crontab -e
added */1 * * * * root /usr/bin/php /Users/clientsupport1/localhost/servercheck/cron/status.cron.php
And when I type crontab -l to see if its loaded I see the following.
*/1 * * * * root /usr/bin/php /Users/clientsupport1/localhost/servercheck/cron/status.cron.php
But the script does not run. I even tried a simple script that writes to a file. Still nothing. For some reason the cron job doesn't execute. Any ideas?
You need to call MAMP’s PHP executable, which will depend on on the version of PHP you’re running. For 7.2.1, the following below would be the proper path
*/1 * * * * /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.2.1/bin/php /Users/clientsupport1/localhost/servercheck/cron/status.cron.php
I want a script file to run once every minute.. I've written this command.
* * * * * php -q /home/<username>/public_html/cron.php
But, this cronjob is not working. whenever, I try to open this file cron.php in browser, it works fine.
I'm using Linux OS. Is there a way to debug it in order to come to know the error?
If you're using Ubuntu as I am, use the full path.
* * * * * /usr/bin/php -q /home/<username>/public_html/cron.php
Have you added an empty line (new line) after your cronjob?
To debug:
Append 2>&1 to the end of your Crontab command. This will redirect the stderr output to the stdout. Then ensure you're logging the crontab's Unix command.
* * * * * php -q /home/<username>/public_html/cron.php; ls -la >>/var/log/cronrun 2>&1
This will capture anything from the Unix command.
A couple of additional hints: Write out the environment variables by issuing the command set with no parameters. And get the shell to echo each command with the set -x command. At the top of your script issue;
set
set -x
For cPanel, you may want to test curl (in case it's installed on your server):
curl --silent --compressed http://www.your-domain.com/cron.php
So it should look similar to: http://grabilla.com/0450d-93d93a32-02ab-457c-ac1c-d2883552a940.html#
You may also want to try removing the -q from your command and see if it helps.
* * * * * php /home/<username>/public_html/cron.php
*/1 * * * * /usr/bin/php -q /home//public_html/cron.php
Add the above line to the crontab file and run it . It will add a cronjob every minute
I am trying to set up a cron job using a PHP script. This works fine on my computer running XAMPP but when I try it on my web host (Just Host) it's not adding it to the list of cron jobs. Here is the PHP code:
exec('crontab cronfile.txt');
cronfile.txt Contents:
* * * * * /usr/bin/php -q /home/-username-/public_html/cron/cron.php 1
This does however work when I add it through cPanel and I can view any cron jobs by using shell_exec('crontab -l'). Any ideas how to resolve this?
Most likely Apache is running as a different user than username, so it won't update usernames crontab file. Run the script
<?php phpinfo()
and verify which user Apache is running as.
On my system, I see the following
User/Group apache(48)/48
You should use this exec('crontab /tmp/cronfile.txt')
and it will work.
You can add every script to this file.
example:
touch /tmp/cronfile.txt
vi /tmp/cronfile.txt
* * * * * path-to-script
* * * * * path-to-script2
.
.
finally
crontab /tmp/cronfile.txt
crontab -l you will see your cron list