I'm trying to set a cronjob to run every 20 minutes.
This works manually:
php /srv/www/mysite.co.uk/public_html/PP/Make_XML.php LONDON
I tried to use "crontab -e" and set it even to every 20 minutes with:
*/20 * * * * php /srv/www/mysite.co.uk/public_html/PP/Make_XML.php LONDON
it was saved to /tmp/crontab.0xYhei9m/crontab
And it doesn't seem to work.
What's wrong here?
EDIT:
Current stats:
*. cron is up and running:
root 31855 1 0 08:39 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/cron
*. Running "crontab -l" shows:
*/20 * * * * /usr/bin/php /srv/www/mysite.co.uk/public_html/PP/Make_XML.php
LONDON
And still no go. Again manually running the script works just fine.
is the cron daemon even running?
it was saved to /tmp/crontab.0xYhei9m/crontab
Yes - that's the file you just edited - its NOT the file crond reads to fire jobs. Crontab whould then read this file, install the updated crontab in the location where crond looks for it and notify crond it needs to process the file.
Have you checked:
crond is running?
your uid is allowed to schedule cron jobs (usually via /etc/cron.allow / /etc/cron.deny)
that the script really isn't being started by cron and failing due to a permissions error?
that the version of crond you are using support $PATH and can find the executable?
In case this is already online, try using wget instead of php, with the url instead of the path, ie.:
*/20 * * * * wget http://YOUR_IP/~YOUR_USER/PATH/Make_XML.php
or
*/20 * * * * wget http://mysite.co.uk/PP/Make_XML.php
First make sure the url works , just by opening it with a browser
Hope it helps!
Crontab doesn't know anything about PATH variable. So use absolute path to your php (/usr/bin/php for e.g.)/ You can run command which php to find your php path
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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
I have setup a cron job thusly:
*/15 * * * * root /usr/bin/php5.6 /var/www/example.com/cr.php
(Yes, root is owner for now - I'll fix that later)
I have also tried with -q after .../php5.6
but it doesn't seem to be working, even though syslog shows it executes every 15 minutes - for example:
Dec 20 17:45:01 e2e-53-27 CRON[2601]: (root) CMD (root /usr/bin/php5.6
-q /var/www/example.com/cr.php)
If I execute the part after the username 'root' at the bash prompt it does work.
This is apache2 running on Debian. I don't know if this makes any difference but the PHP file is using curl to call an external API that sends an SMS.
You should use this format in cron file to make it work:
*/15 * * * * /usr/bin/php5.6 /var/www/example.com/cr.php
And the best way is to put this in script and add as first line in the script command:
. /root/.bash_profile
to make the environment as it is in command line
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.
I try to run PHP scripts on my debian server, everyday at midnight & 1 minute.
So I created the crontab file in admin, with
crontab -e
who seems to be in
/tmp/crontab.ky3Q3F/crontab
And I put the line
01 00 * * * /usr/bin/php5 /var/www/MySite/cronTB.php
Bellow the comments.
The goal is to run cronTB.php (with PHP) everyday at 0h01.
Is my syntax correct ?
Is the correct file to edit, to the correct path ?
Is the CRON daemon still runing after I run it with:
/etc/init.d/cron start
even if I close the ssh connexion ?
Thanks for help
I need to send emails hourly and daily. I've tried nearly everything but it appears my crontab just won't work. If I run the scripts via a browser e.g
http://localhost/Maisha/Functions/sendhourlymails.php
my emails get sent beautifully.(I moved default website localhost to public_html.) I don't know whats wrong. I read some post in stack overflow including the executable path of php helps hence I've put the /usr/bin/php before the actual script to be cronned will work but it does not. Removing /usr/bin/php does not work. Adding php before the actual script isn't working.
I have the following entries in my crontab.
# m h dom mon dow command
0 * * * * /usr/bin/php /home/maxwell/public_html/Maisha/Functions/sendhourlymails.php
0 0 * * * /usr/bin/php /home/maxwell/public_html/Maisha/Functions/senddailymails.php
Try to call the script via http with wget like so:
* * * * * wget http://localhost/myscript >/dev/null 2>&1
Yeh, wget is good option, also you can try to use:
0 * * * * /usr/sbin/php /usr/bin/php /home/maxwell/public_html/Maisha/Functions/sendhourlymails.php
but it could work wrong due to relative paths.
Also you should look at http://php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.php
Try to put this into your .php file
<?php
#!/usr/local/bin/php -q
//your code here
?>
Then if you include any file into this file you must use something like:
include"/var/www/../your_absolute_path_from_root_folder/connect.php";
Finnaly make sure this file has the right permissions..Try
chmod 755 /var/www/.../file.php
Then if you edit your crontab file with the following command
vi /etc/crontab
put something like
10 6 * * * root php /var/www/..path../file.php
and restart the service with this command
/etc/init.d/cron restart
you have do your job!!
Note-Tip:the php file isn't neccessery to be into public_html
folder!!