entered:
echo 'action=reset&value=all' >> /usr/local/directadmin/data/task.queue
manually, that worked, the cronjob did not start this night... strange.
Cron looks fine:
Nov 1 04:20:01 colo crond[23064]: (root) CMD (echo 'action=reset&value=all' >> /usr/local/directadmin/data/task.queue)