I'm using a wp-cli tool in order to optimize images:
$ wp image-optimize batch --limit=20
I've installed wpcli using composer so it's in an unusual location, but is in my $PATH:
/home/user/.config/composer/vendor/wp-cli/wp-cli/bin/wp
This works great. I'd like to run this command nightly. I've tried two different approaches to this. First, I tried running the command as a cronjob (set every minute for testing):
$ crontab -e
* * * * * cd /path/to/example.com && wp image-optimize batch --limit=20
I got no response. I wondered if the problem had something to do with passing arguments in a cronjob. So, I created a bash script nightly-image-optimize (also in path) hoping that this might get around it:
#!/bin/bash
echo "begin" >> /home/user/cronlog.log
cd /path/to/example.com
sh /home/user/.config/composer/vendor/wp-cli/wp-cli/bin/wp image-optimize batch --limit=2
echo "end" >> /home/user/cronlog.log
I then modified the cronjob to execute this file every minute as my username since cron runs as root:
* * * * * username /usr/local/bin/nightly-image-optimize
I know the cronjob is running because my cronlog.log file is created and is populated every minute with the echo begin and end statements above.
While in context this is a wp-cli problem, I don't believe that the issue has anything to do with wp-cli. I think I'm misunderstanding how to essentially 'tell' bash to run a process as if I had manually entered it in (maybe something to do with the interactivity of wp-cli?).
Any ideas?
Note:
I'm on AWS running Ubuntu 18.04.3 as a non-root user with sudo privileges
I am trying to set, using Putty SSH access, the external cron of a wordpress website to run every hour
So I access my server SSH, run crontab -e
add the command:
0 * * * * https://mywebsite.com/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron >/dev/null 2>&1
press ESC + :wp to save
as you can confirm here the crontab -l
https://i.imgur.com/Fz8z9TX.jpg
However I am checking Cron logs and it doesn't run at all
Any idea what is going on / what am I missing?
In my app I've got one task that needs to be done every 48 hours on server side. I've created a console command in order to automatize my job. However I don't know how can I set timer to keep invoking that command. Can you point my a way to do that?
You should see on a cron commands.
Cron will run your command every X (frequency) times.
TO create a cron, (on unix) use: crontab -e
For example
0 0 */2 * * bin/console app:command >/dev/null 2>&1
will run every odd days, bin/console app:command
to help you generating a cron
https://crontab-generator.org/
I found many similar questions on internet but no one could resolve my problem..I am working on Solaris 5.10 machine.. Here Inside a shell script a customized command is being run like below.
palf -f ${basePath}/palf_file.DAT -e ${basePath}/LOG/palf_file.log
This command only runs while logged in as "palf" user. Now this script & subsequently this command is running perfectly from command prompt. But crontab is not able run this command.
I tried few things.. I changed the entry of my crontab file like below which could not even run the script.
40 15 * * * palf bash /opt/bin/scripts/script.sh
Then I tried to edit a cronfile as "palf" user by using the below command but it gave me "invalid options" error.
crontab -u palf -e
I also tried
crontab -e palf
It opened a crontab file but it was same as the root's crontab file not the user's specific
Nothing worked for me. Could anyone please help here? Thanks.
palf -f ${basePath}/palf_file.DAT -e ${basePath}/LOG/palf_file.log
if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
logger "palf command failed. Please check..." 1
else
logger "palf command successfully executed..." 0
fi
This is how I am checking the status of palf command.. and it prints "palf command failed. Please check..." using logger function every time it runs using cronjob.
I've spent two days trying to understand why I can not get cron to work on my Ubuntu EC2 instance. I've read the documentation. Can anyone help? All I want is to get a working cronjob.
I am using a simple wget command to test cron. I have verified that this works manually from the command line:
/usr/bin/wget -O /home/ubuntu/backups/testfile http://www.nytimes.com/
My crontab file looks like this:
02 * * * * /usr/bin/wget -O /home/ubuntu/backups/testfile http://www.nytimes.com/
I have single spaces between the commands and I have a blank line below the command. I've also tried to execute this command from the system level sudo crontab -e. It still doesn't work.
The cron daemon is running:
ps aux | grep crond
ubuntu 2526 0.0 0.1 8096 928 pts/4 S+ 10:37 0:00 grep crond
The cronjob appear to be running:
$ crontab -l
02 * * * * /usr/bin/wget -O /home/ubuntu/backups/testfile http://www.nytimes.com/
Does anyone have any advice or possible solutions?
Thanks for your time.
Cron can be run in Amazon-based linux server just like in any other linux server.
Login to console with SSH.
Run crontab -e on the command line.
You are now inside a vi editor of the crontab of the current user (which is by default the console user, with root permissions)
To test cron, add the following line: * * * * * /usr/bin/uptime > /tmp/uptime
Now save the file and exit vi (press Esc and enter :wq).
After a minute or two, check that the uptime file was created in /tmp (cat /tmp/uptime).
Compare it with the current system uptime by typing the uptime command on the command line.
The scenario above worked successfully on a server with the Amazon Linux O/S installed, but it should work on other linux boxes as well. This modifies the crontab of the current user, without touching the system's crontabs and doesn't require the user inside the crontab entry, since you are running things under your own user. Easier, and safer!
Your cron daemon is not running. When you're running ps aux | grep crond the result is showing that only the grep command is running. Be aware of this whenever you run ps aux | grep blah.
Check the status of the cron service by running this command.
Try:
sudo service crond status
Additional information here: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-linux-unix-start-restart-cron/.
On some AWS Ubuntu EC2 machines, cron jobs cannot be edited or made to run by using crontab -e or even sudo crontab -e (for whatever reason). I was able to get cron jobs working by:
touch /home/ubuntu/crontest.log to create a log file
sudo vim /etc/crontab which edits the system-wide crontab
add your own cron job on the second to last line using the root user, such as * * * * * root date && echo 'It works!'>> /home/ubuntu/crontest.log 2>&1 which dumps stdout and stderr into the logfile you created in step 1
Verify it is working by waiting 1 minute and then cat /home/ubuntu/crontest.log to see the output of the cron job
Don't forget to specify the user to run it as. Try creating a new file inside your /etc/cron.d folder named after what you want to do like getnytimes and have the contents of that file just be:
02 * * * * root /usr/bin/wget -O /home/ubuntu/backups/testfile http://www.nytimes.com/
In my case the cron job was working but the script it was running failed. The failure reason was due to the fact that I used relative path instead of absolute path in my include line inside the script.
What did the trick for me was
Make sure the crontab was active:
sudo service crond status
Restart the crontab by running:
sudo service crond restart
Reschedule the cron job as usual:
crontab -e
running
/usr/bin/wget -O /home/ubuntu/backups/testfile http://www.nytimes.com/
gives me an error
/home/ubuntu/backups/testfile: No such file or directory
is this your issue?
I guess cron is not writing this error to anywhere you can redirect stderr to stdout and see the error like this :
02 * * * * /usr/bin/wget -O /home/ubuntu/backups/testfile http://www.nytimes.com/ > /home/ubuntu/error.log 2&>1