Ispconfig 3, phplist & cron problem

Hi all,

sorry for my english.

I've problem with phplist and cron jobs on a ispconfig 3 server (ubuntu 10.04).

Client put on his cron jobs this string:

/usr/bin/php -q /home/of/client/web/lists/admin/cron.php

You can find these lines in the file:

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
system("/usr/bin/php /home/of/client/web/lists/admin/index.php -pprocessqueue -c/home/of/client/web/lists/config/config.php")
?>

But nothing work.

If I go to see in the server, I find, in /etc/cron.d/ a file, ispc_web40, formatted like this:

MAILTO=' '

10 * * * * web40 /usr/bin/php -q /home/of/client/web/lists/admin/cron.php

But without write permission:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 109 2011-02-09 16:55 ispc_web40

In fact, if I launch the phplist procedure to send the newsletters, nothing happens :-|

Where am I wrong?!

Tnx All and sorry again for my terrible english

 

Did you put this in your crontab? What's the output of

Code:

crontab -l

?

 

No, because the user haven't shell access. I wish that he used the panel, not the shell: the user puts his string in the cron jobs form, and the cron work. If I let him use the shell, for me is a big problem...

However, the result of "crontab -u web40 -l" is "no crontab for web40".

Thanks for your reply!

 

How did the user create the cron job then? Through ISPConfig?

 

Yes, he do: the user has logged on the panel and used the form for cron jobs.
The cron jobs were written to the file /etc/cron.d/ispc_web40, but the jobs don't start.
Or rather, maybe I do not understand what the log file to look at whether the process is started or not and what errors have occurred.

 

What's the output of

Code:

ls -la /etc/cron.d/

? What's in /etc/cron.d/ispc_web40? Are there any cron errors in /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages?

 

We've got the same problem, output as requested for me:

Code:

# ls -la /etc/cron.d/
total 28
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Feb 16 14:04 .
drwxr-xr-x 63 root root 4096 Feb 21 14:12 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  102 Sep 28  2008 .placeholder
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  620 Feb 16 10:44 ispc_chrooted_web58
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  119 Feb 16 14:04 ispc_chrooted_web59
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  149 Jan 14 13:02 ispc_web2
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  499 Aug  4  2010 php5

and the contents of ispc_chrooted_web58 is:

Code:

# cat ispc_chrooted_web58
MAILTO=''

SHELL='/usr/sbin/jk_chrootsh'

0	7	*	*	*	web58	/usr/bin/php -q /var/www/clients/client1/web58/web/billing/admin/cron.php
0	5	*	*	*	web58	/usr/bin/php -q /var/www/clients/client1/web58/web/billing/modules/registrars/enom/enomsync.php
0	6	*	*	*	web58	/usr/bin/php -q /var/www/clients/client1/web58/web/billing/modules/gateways/callback/worldpayfuturepaycharges.php
0	4	*	*	*	web58	/usr/bin/php -q /var/www/clients/client1/web58/web/billing/modules/registrars/nominet/nominetsync.php
0	3	*	*	*	web58	/usr/bin/php -q /var/www/clients/client1/web58/web/billing/modules/registrars/resellerclub/resellerclubsync.php

None of these cron jobs seem to run for this user or others and it's the same on other servers we have, any thoughts?

What is the chrooted reference and how does this apply?

When any of those commands are run from the command line, the script executes in PHP without any problems.

 

Ah ok, thanks for pointing that out Till - how do you disable chrooting of cronjobs in ISPConfig 3?

Thanks

David

 

Ah ok, that's great thanks.

Does the chrooted cron use Jailkit settings or is it a custom chroot?