Need some help with crontab

black3dynamite

Which user is running that job?

DustinB3403

I'm accessing the crontab file using my user, with sudo access. Below is the entire crontab file.

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root

# For details see man 4 crontabs

# Example of job definition:
# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)
# |  .------------- hour (0 - 23)
# |  |  .---------- day of month (1 - 31)
# |  |  |  .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...
# |  |  |  |  .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
# |  |  |  |  |
# *  *  *  *  * user-name  command to be executed
  *  15 *  *  1 /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/snipeit/artisan snipeit:expiring-alerts
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"/etc/crontab" 15L, 533C

black3dynamite

@dustinb3403
Maybe its something to do with the mailto variable.

DustinB3403

I just changed the job to include my username. We'll see how that goes.

DustinB3403

@black3dynamite said in Need some help with crontab:

@dustinb3403
Maybe its something to do with the mailto variable.

I don't think that is the issue, as I didn't add that. The only part I added was the command.

I configured this to run at 11AM EST (16:00 UTC) and will report back a few minutes.

momurda

@dustinb3403 /usr/bin/php isnt a user. I think you need to quote up.

DustinB3403

@momurda said in Need some help with crontab:

@dustinb3403 /usr/bin/php isnt a user. I think you need to quote up.

So ?

  @weekly "/usr/bin/php" "/var/www/html/snipeit/artisan snipeit:expiring-alerts"

DustinB3403

@dustinb3403 said in Need some help with crontab:

"/usr/bin/php" "/var/www/html/snipeit/artisan snipeit:expiring-alerts"

trying this

10 16 * * 1 "/usr/bin/php" "/var/www/html/snipeit/artisan" "snipeit:expiring-alerts"

DustinB3403

That didn't work. . .

black3dynamite

@dustinb3403 said in Need some help with crontab:

That didn't work. . .

Have you tried that command under root crontab?

DustinB3403

@black3dynamite said in Need some help with crontab:

@dustinb3403 said in Need some help with crontab:

That didn't work. . .

Have you tried that command under root crontab?

Stepping into su and running the command words.

  su root
  > pass
  /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/snipeit/artisan snipeit:expiring-alerts

So this has to be with the way I have it configured. I wonder if I need to create a bash script, and simply have cron call that rather than using the lines like above in cron. . .

If I do then the documentation is misleading. . .

DustinB3403

I've created a simple script and have cron set to run the script at 11:35AM. So I'll see if that works.

Executing the script from SSH works without issue. . .

So we'll see. . .

DustinB3403

Ok and that is what it was.

Simply needed to make a bash script out of it and have it scheduled to run, rather than using the commands directly in cron.

Problem solved.

Solution:

pwd
/usr/bin/local
touch expiring-alert.sh
vi expiring-alert.sh
     /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/snipeit/artisan snipeit:expiring-alerts
 sudo vi /etc/crontab
     35 * * * 1 <user> /usr/local/bin/expiring-alert.sh

Presumably changing this to be @daily or @weekly would work as well.

dbeato

@dustinb3403 said in Need some help with crontab:

Ok and that is what it was.

Simply needed to make a bash script out of it and have it scheduled to run, rather than using the commands directly in cron.

Problem solved.

Solution:
pwd
/usr/bin/local
touch expiring-alert.sh
vi expiring-alert.sh
     /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/snipeit/artisan snipeit:expiring-alerts
 sudo vi /etc/crontab
     35 * * * 1 <user> /usr/local/bin/expiring-alert.sh
Presumably changing this to be @daily or @weekly would work as well.

MOst of the time that is how I have it setup on my crontab, same for my certbot scripts too.