Cron jobs don't work.

[wdalessi]

I have installed a couple websites on my server that require Cron jobs.

I have set them up using the controll panel like

wget http://www.domain-name.com/script.php

the strange thing is that one worked a couple times, but the other website never worked.

The sites were down 2+ weeks befor the programmer figured out that cron was not working on my server correctly for some reason.

He has set the cron jobs to run on a remote server, but this does not fix the larger problem of Cron jobs not properly working on my server.

I am running Fedora core 3, and DA.

I do remember that when I setup the domains on the server I had the "Cron Job" setting turned off for the domains, so I went back into the settings and turned them "ON".

Could there be a conflict because of this, and if so how could I determine it?

How can I check my server to see if "Cron Jobs" should be working or not.

Thank you in advance for any help you can offer.

I am a little new to Linux and Direct Admin.

Thank you.

 

[Tomn]

you need to run the wget as root.

to see if they are being executed, goto /var/log/cron
or /var/log/cron.1

or shell into the account that's running them, and try a wget http://domain.com and see if it says access denied

 

[wdalessi]

Hello,

It tries to connect and fails. It says there is "no route to host" and keeps retrying with the same message.

conecting to Domain.com .....Failed: No route to host.
retrying.


This really has me confused.


They look like they should run, but nothing happens. In directAdmin they look like they run.

 

[nobaloney]

If there's no route to the host then of course you can't connect.

Do an nslookup or dig on the URL, and also a traceroute. All from the server of course.

Jeff