Crontab going crazy as well

[totaltouch]

Hi there,

A user on my system was complaining about cron not working. So I started testing things out. Setting cron is done through the DA interface.

Once a user sets a crontab like this everything works

30 * * * * curl http://www.userdomain.com/test.php

Once a user sets a crontab like this everything works as well

* 14 * * * curl http://www.userdomain.com/test.php

Once a user sets a crontab like this, directadmin saves, REPLACE message in /var/log, but at the exact time.... nothing

30 14 * * * curl http://www.userdomain.com/test.php

No error messages, no e-mails, nothing in /var/log....

 

[scsi]

Probably should put the full path to curl. Also you can add a line MAILTO="[email protected]" and it should email you any errors or output that occur. If there are no error or output then there is going to be nothing sent to you. Check the cron log to see if the job indeed did run at the time you set. The log should be like /var/log/cron or /var/log/crontab

 

[totaltouch]

The cronjob does not seem to be triggered at all with a set time. It works with a wildcard for minute or hour, but by setting the exact time things don't run.

 

[nobaloney]

Check to at what time your cron.daily runs, and if the commands therein run.

Jeff