Ubuntu 14 environment
cronjob doesnt work for a script in sub-domain directory but it did work for same script in html directory
put script for sub-domain directory by both methods (crontab -e / sudo crontab -e) with no go.
following is the sample job im trying to execute:
0 0,4,8,12,16,20 * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/subdomain/script.php
any word of advise ?
its my first question on stack so please apologize me for any ignorance
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I am running a bash script that transfers files to my AWS bucket.If i run the bash script through my terminal it works fine (via ./myBash.sh).
However I put it in my crontab but there it doesn't work.This is my bash script
#!/bin/bash
s3cmd put /home/anonymous/commLogs.txt s3://myBucket/
echo transfer completed
echo now listing files in the s3 bucket
s3cmd ls s3://myBucket/
echo check
And this is my crontab-
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
46 13 * * * /bin/bash myBash.sh
And here is a list of things i have aready tried -
1)tried running the crontab with a node app to test whether crontab was working(the answer was yes)
2)tried running the crontab without the SHELL and PATH
3)Tried running the bash script from cron using sudo (46 13 * * * sudo myBash.sh)
4)tried running the bash without the /bin/bash
5) Searched many sites on the net for an answer without satisfactory results
Can anyone help me with what the problem may be?(I am running Ubuntu 14.04)
After a long time getting the same error, I just did this :
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
* * * * * /bin/bash /home/joaovitordeon/Documentos/test.sh
For anyone coming to this post.
I was having same problem and reason was crontab was running under root user and s3cmd was configured under ubuntu user.
so need to copy .s3cfg to root
cp -i /home/ubuntu/.s3cfg /root/.s3cfg
I am trying to execute a php script in my linux server. the script will run everyday at 8 am. I have uploaded my crontab in linux server and the php file update1.php Script in my crontab is given below. But this isnt updating my databse. where am i doing wrong ? Am i missing something here. Thanks in advance.
crontab
0 8 * * * http://www.mywebsite.com/update1.php
You can use --spider option of wget for this purpose.
0 8 * * * wget --spider http://www.mywebsite.com/update1.php
--spider indicates not to download anything (we just want to go through the pages, that’s all)
This line/code in your crontab:
http://www.mywebsite.com/update1.php
is not an execution of the script, it's just the url to it. You should download the php script, and put it locally on your linux server. That would make things simpler and much more reliable.
I would login to your linux server, use wget to download the script, chmod it to make sure it's executable, and mv it to wherever you want on your server:
wget http://www.mywebsite.com/update1.php -O update1.php
chmod 755 update1.php
mv update1.php /path/to/where/you/want/script
Then now that you have the script locally on your linux server, edit your crontab (crontab -e), and add the following line:
0 8 * * * /path/to/where/you/want/script/update1.php
I need a shell script that would run two .sh files which are in the directory: /opt/tomcat-latest/bin
#!/bin/sh
cd /opt/tomcat-latest/bin
./shutdown.sh
./startup.sh
Would this code achieve my goal? If so how do I make it on a cron job that runs every 2 hours? I have a Linux Centos VPS and DirectAdmin admin panel.
I think the easiest solution would be to run directly the commands with its full path from cron, instead of using a sh script.
Something like this in the crontab would work :
* */2 * * * /opt/tomcat-latest/bin/shutdown.sh && /opt/tomcat-latest/bin/startup.sh
That would run every 2 hours
you can edit crontab with crontab -e and check the crontab syntax here : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crontab
Trying to add a new cronjob to my server using Plesk. I have two running already, but it's so long since I set them up that I can't remember why I did it the way I did. They work exactly as they should.
*/13* * * * &> /dev/null php -q httpdocs/forum/notifyreply.php
*/9 * * * * &> /dev/null php -q httpdocs/forum/notifytopic.php
However, when I add my new job using the same format, it doesn't seem to do anything. The script doesn't run and I get no e-mail notification to tell me that the script has run. The new job is as follows:
* * * * * &> /dev/null php -q httpdocs/crm/autoMessages/autoEmail.php
I'm running these on a Linux Virtual Server with Apache and using Plesk Control Panel. Hosting provider is 123-Reg.
Can anyone help?
Thanks!
UPDATE
So I've now removed the /dev/null line so I receive e-mail notifications and I'm getting the following error message:
/bin/sh: php: Permission denied
What I don't understand is why permission is being denied on this command but not on the other two...
Not sure what could have happened, but first thing I would do is to check if the permissions for the new php script are the same as what the old ones have. Do a ls -l on both httpdocs/forum/notifyreply.php and httpdocs/forum/notifytopic.php, and compare the permissions against what httpdocs/crm/autoMessages/autoEmail.php have.
You are not setting a User/Group for the cron command, better do it like this
* * * * * www-data www-data php -q httpdocs/crm/autoMessages/autoEmail.php > /dev/null 2>&1
(assuming that www-data is the correct User)
note that I put the error handling at the end.
Also, I think that you should use the full path; either you forgot to add a slash ( /httpdocs/.... ) , or do you have this script in the cron folder?
I'm trying to run a command by cron in Raspbian.
If I run ./sec_cam.sh, than my script runs, If I try to run it via crontab every 5 min, than nothing happens.
crontab -e shows me the followings:
*/5 * * * * ./sec_cam.sh
Did I configure the crontab wrong?
Thx in advance
scripts started from a cronjob are not setup with your usual environment, especially not with your current working directory (referenced by the . in ./sec_cam.sh). so to make this work you should specify a full path name like /home/user/sec_cam.sh