Cronjob for overwriting file in a special user folder not functioning

[alwaysbusy]

Hi

following situation:
I have a DirectAdmin server with several users (+ domains) on it. This are all domains from me, so there are in real no other users using that server beside me.

I have a json database file, which needs to get updated every few minutes for a script. And i need it on several domains. Before now every users is downloading the json file via a cronjob every few minutes and generating there a traffic volume from a few tb per month, i thought i download it on one place and make then a cronjob, which is overwriting this json database file in the necessary user folders.

My technical guys from the server setup for this the following cronjob as admin:

cp -rf /home/usera/public_html/cronjobs/foldera/database.json /home/userb/public_html/folderxyz/database.json -y

For example: the cronjob should copy from "usera" from the folder "foldera" the file "database.json" to "userb" in the folder "folderxyz" and overwrite there the "database.json" file every 5 minutes. But this command seems not to work and my technicals guys are trying to fix this already since hours.

Has someone a tip for me, how i can get this working in an easy way?

Thanks and Greets

 

[Ohm J]

cronjob will run as user,
so that why you can't copy file between user with Cronjob like that
Also "admin" is a member too, it's can't access to other User Home too,

You can trying to run command directly without cronjob and see result


So I think you should run with root and do chown after finish copy

or you need set permission on userfile "/home/userb/public_html/folderxyz/"
with something like "chown userb:usera"
so this is bad idea i dont recommend it.

 

[alwaysbusy]

Hi,

thanks for your answer and help.

Can i also run a command automatically every x minutes for example?

Or is there on DirectAdmin a other possibility that i can share as admin a file with several users on my own server?

Greets

 

[alwaysbusy]

If someone else needs it:
My technicians had been adding the cron under roe root crontab, so they can copy from user a a file to user b in a given time interval and overwrite there a specified file. Its functioning.

Greets