Cron Jobs Not Running

Vyoma

Sep 21 2006, 08:38 AM

Is anyone having problems with their cron jobs? I have Drupal installed, and it requires a script to be run every day, but it has been about 2 weeks since the cron job has run. It is required so that I can clean up old logs from by database. But instead, I have been just getting mails from the server that my cron jobs did not run.

I have not made any changes, and it was running properly prior to that.
Could someone please look into this? It is not a priority issue, but it would soon turn into one if my database starts to bloat with unwanted old logs of site statistics.

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OpaQue

Sep 21 2006, 08:39 AM

Make sure that the crons are set properly.. :-0

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Vyoma

Sep 21 2006, 08:59 AM

QUOTE(OpaQue @ Sep 21 2006, 02:09 PM)

Make sure that the crons are set properly.. :-0

OK OpeQue. I will have another look at it, and try to setup again. If it does not run again in the next one week, I will post here again, with the detailed error mail I got.

Edit:
That is odd! I checked it up just now, and it seems to be running fine. All the logs are squeaky clean as they should be. I check up my Drupal admin area and it shows:

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Cron is running. The last cron job ran 33 min 36 sec ago.

I am sorry to have brought it up, but since the cron job was not running for past two weeks, and my mail box had around 100+ mails from the server, I was a bit worried. It seems like things are fine now.

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Vyoma

Oct 6 2006, 04:56 PM

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Cron job last ran 1 week and 2 days ago.

I think there is some serious problem with my cron jobs. It spurts into action sometimes, and sometimes it remains dormant for quite a while. It is not running properly per schedule, because I again have got more than 60 mails from the server stating that some permission was denied for running some file.

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Mark420

Oct 25 2006, 10:19 PM

Hey Vyoma...are the cron jobs still a proplem?

Hows it working for you now?

Im about to implement a dynamic RSS newsfeed addint to content module and I am going to be needing to run a cron job twice a day to refresh my content so I am going to be relying on the accuracy of them running smoothly when I program them too.

Thanks for the reply

Marky!

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Vyoma

Oct 26 2006, 04:59 AM

Yeah Mark420, it still seems to be a problem. I checked up my Drupal logs and it has not run for several days. Here is the mail I get from the gamma server:

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From: Cron Daemon <root@gamma.xisto.com> Mailed-By: gamma.xisto.com
To: k.mahesh.bhat@gmail.com
Date: Oct 26, 2006 5:30 AM
Subject: Cron <vyoma@gamma> wget -O - -q http://kmaheshbhat.astahost.com/cron.php
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/bin/sh: /usr/bin/wget: Permission denied

I too would be relying much on the cron jobs soon when my member base expands. I would be sending out NewsLetters, but it will be sent in batches to reduce the load on server - but if the cron jobs are not running properly, I am not sure how I would be able to do that.

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Mark420

Oct 26 2006, 06:43 AM

Hmm seems like we need to BUG the admins about this one!!
I will be heavly relying on the cron job from next week onwards...

ALso for doing a daily backup of mysql...so i wont be happy if its not running on time each day ;((

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Vyoma

Oct 29 2006, 09:11 AM

Overlords! The great admins! I call for thee!
Smite the cron job failure and set us free!

No - seriously guys. I really need the cron to be running properly. I have had a lot of activity at my site lately and I do need heavy clean up jobs to be running. The cron failure message (that I have quoted above) is almost spamming my mail box lately.

Is there anywhere else that I need to raise the ticket or something like that?

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faulty.lee

Nov 5 2006, 04:48 PM

QUOTE(Vyoma @ Oct 29 2006, 05:11 PM)

Overlords! The great admins! I call for thee!
Smite the cron job failure and set us free!

No - seriously guys. I really need the cron to be running properly. I have had a lot of activity at my site lately and I do need heavy clean up jobs to be running. The cron failure message (that I have quoted above) is almost spamming my mail box lately.

Is there anywhere else that I need to raise the ticket or something like that?

you can try run /usr/bin/wget from the terminal. If you still get the same error message, you'll have to ask the admin to give you execute permission on /usr/bin/wget

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Vyoma

Nov 5 2006, 07:58 PM

I do not think we have shell access through our accounts. So, I do not know if I can try that.

Moreover, the odd thing is that it works once in a while. But for the past few weeks it does not work.

It is really a nuisance - admins, please look into this.

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