[svlug] Urgent help needed -- Cpanel and cron jobs

[Skip Evans]

Hi Bob and all,

Actually, the cron in question is scheduled in 
cpanel to run every 15 minutes.

But that's the nebulous cloud I have... where 
would it show up? Cpanel and WHM seem to be weird 
animals that do their own thing.

They don't always seem to jive with what is on the 
OS level, that I can see, anyway.

I've been warned that getting cpanel and OS 
settings out of sync can cause problems, hence my 
trepidation.

Skip

Bob Smith wrote:
> Skip Evans wrote:
> 
>> The problem is with a few cron jobs configured through Cpanel (php 
>> files). We have four of them that are scheduled to fire off, but they 
>> don't seem to be working.
> 
> 
> If the cron jobs are in /etc/cron.daily (as opposed
> to actual entries in crontab), then be sure the file
> permissions and ownership are set properly.  Use the
> other files in cron.daily as an example.
> 
> Look, of course, at /var/log/messages to see if the
> jobs are reporting why they can't run.
> 
> A 'ps as' shows that crond is running, right?
> 
> 
> hope this helps,
> Bob
> 

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Skip Evans
Big Sky Penguin, LLC
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