Cron Job outside of ISPconfig?

Hello,

I have Liquidsoap on the same server image that I got from here Ubuntu 16.04 and even after I setup cron job as specific username (Administrator) to restart it does not run on the specific time yet when I run it from Webmin "Scheduled Cron Jobs" it restarts just fine. Any idea?
TIA

 

Sorry for late reply but I got really busy with some personal stuff.

I've tried with root and administrator but neither one will run at specific time only if i click on "Save and Run Now" https://prnt.sc/k84khb
Cron job log file /var/log/syslog at ie. 12:59 shows this:

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Jul 18 12:59:01 ubuntu cron[989]: (root) RELOAD (crontabs/root)
Jul 18 12:59:01 ubuntu CRON[13855]: (root) CMD (/etc/init.d/liquidsoap restart #liquidsoap restart)
Jul 18 12:59:01 ubuntu CRON[13856]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/ispconfig/server/cron.sh 2>&1 | while read line; do echo `/bin/date` "$line" >> /var/log/ispconfig/cron.log; done)
Jul 18 12:59:01 ubuntu CRON[13876]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/ispconfig/server/server.sh 2>&1 | while read line; do echo `/bin/date` "$line" >> /var/log/ispconfig/cron.log; done)
Jul 18 12:59:01 ubuntu postfix/pickup[29127]: B24801FF1F: uid=0 from=<root>

Here's output of date before that 12:59 https://prnt.sc/k84jqq

 

I only remember Debian 7 or 8 having some serious issue at one minor release where you had to restart cronjob service to make it work again... but dunno what situation you have there.
I don't know liquidsoap either nor what it does to the system ... though everything would be a wild guess

 

Thanks for the reply! To sum it up, restarting, stopping or starting runs from the command line just fine AND when clicking on "Save and Run Now" just not at specific time using cronjob.

 

have you investigated wether the created cronfiles are actually valid?
I don't know how! the cronjob is executed when the process knows to run them just now, maybe

 

I've searched online but could not find that info

 

Maybe the the crontab is wrong? You have not shown what is in the crontab.

Code:

crontab -l

 

It looks like that it matches my previous screenshot?

Code:

[root@ubuntu ~]# crontab -l
* * * * * /usr/local/ispconfig/server/server.sh 2>&1 | while read line; do echo `/bin/date` "$line" >> /var/log/ispconfig/cron.log; done
* * * * * /usr/local/ispconfig/server/cron.sh 2>&1 | while read line; do echo `/bin/date` "$line" >> /var/log/ispconfig/cron.log; done
2 * 7,14,18,21,28 * * /etc/init.d/liquidsoap stop #liquidsoap stop
[root@ubuntu ~]#

 

That should run 2 minutes after each full hour at the
7,14,18,21,28 days of month. Strange schedule, is that what you want?
What is that
#liquidsoap stop
in the cron command doing? Looks to me it makes the command invalid.

 

Edit the file with command

Code:

crontab -e

to fix that possible invalid command. Add in the file the line

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[email protected]

so you get emailed info if the command cron executes outputs something, error messages for example.

 

The reason for schedule was to testing purpose instead of waiting another weak to see if it will work.
That is description of the command https://prnt.sc/k8y1zt
Stop command is also for testing purpose just to see if it will execute it.

I even went more extreme and set it at all minutes, days and months but even after I added
[email protected] I'm not getting any emails. No trace of it in the mail log /var/log/mail.log

 

Mail gets sent only if cron job outputs something.
That description is irrelevant. What matters is what crontab -l shows.

 

But syslog shows that every minute cron job is run.

Code:

Jul 20 09:31:01 ubuntu CRON[20519]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/ispconfig/server/cron.sh 2>&1 | while read line; do echo `/bin/date` "$line" >> /var/log/ispconfig/cron.log; done)
Jul 20 09:31:01 ubuntu CRON[20520]: (root) CMD (/etc/init.d/liquidsoap stop)
Jul 20 09:31:01 ubuntu CRON[20521]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/ispconfig/server/server.sh 2>&1 | while read line; do echo `/bin/date` "$line" >> /var/log/ispconfig/cron.log; done)

and here

Code:

Jul 20 09:30:01 ubuntu CRON[19695]: (getmail) CMD (/usr/local/bin/run-getmail.sh > /dev/null 2>> /dev/null)
Jul 20 09:30:01 ubuntu CRON[19697]: (root) CMD (/etc/init.d/liquidsoap stop)
Jul 20 09:30:01 ubuntu CRON[19704]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/ispconfig/server/cron.sh 2>&1 | while read line; do echo `/bin/date` "$line" >> /var/log/ispconfig/cron.log; done)
Jul 20 09:30:01 ubuntu CRON[19715]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/ispconfig/server/server.sh 2>&1 | while read line; do echo `/bin/date` "$line" >> /var/log/ispconfig/cron.log; done)

and so on...

 

Try cron job like something like this:

Code:

* * * * * /bin/date

 

Code:

root@ubuntu:~# crontab -l
* * * * * /usr/local/ispconfig/server/server.sh 2>&1 | while read line; do echo `/bin/date` "$line" >> /var/log/ispconfig/cron.log; done
* * * * * /usr/local/ispconfig/server/cron.sh 2>&1 | while read line; do echo `/bin/date` "$line" >> /var/log/ispconfig/cron.log; done
* * * * * /etc/init.d/liquidsoap stop
* * * * * /bin/date
[email protected]
root@ubuntu:~#

Hmm, still not getting any email
If I click on save and run now in Webmin I get correct output https://prnt.sc/k8z4bj

 

Does sending mail work on that host?
Does command

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mailx

show emails? Either as root or the user created at install time.

 

Put that MAILTO line first in the crontab.
Is cron running on that host at all? Are the changes made in ISPConfig panel going OK? Try cron line

Code:

* * * * * env > /tmp/env.txt

and see if file /tmp/env.txt appears and what is in it.

 

It does. Since this is test server I guess I never tested email sending on it.
Here's the end output.

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New mail has arrived.
Saved 2 messages in /root/mbox
Held 755 messages in /var/mail/root
You have mail in /var/mail/root
root@ubuntu:~#