I have a complex cron I need to run and I can't find out how. New to crons so I'm sure it's obvious:
From 7:30 am to 5:00pm Monday thru Friday
run command every 25th and 55th minute of the hour.
Any help would be appreciated.
I would put it in the root crontab. (if you have that access) Command: sudo crontab -e
Then inside:
55 7-16 1-5 * * /usr/bin/php /path/to/script
25 8-16 1-5 * * /usr/bin/php /path/to/script
You might have to change the first path depending on where your php binary is located. If so whereis php will help you out.
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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
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 have a cron job in cronjob.txt as follows
* * * * * nohup sh cronScheduleInit.sh >> cronlog.txt &
and ran it using command,
crontab cronjob.txt
After my testing ,i deleted the cron job entry using following command,
crontab -e
and when display the list of jobs using
crontab -l
showing no entries but still the cron job is running, i mean it is generating the entries in log file. Even i commented the job entry in cronjob.txt file
Also, tried deleting cron job and listed the jobs. its showing no cron jobs but still the log is running...
crontab -r
What to do.. Please help!!!!
Process can be find out using command ps aux. So check
ps aux|grep crontab #or
ps aux|grep cronjob
Then you will get something like
user 29587 2.0 1.1 748804 88968 pts/31 Sl+ Mar04 19:55 grunt
This result refers for service grunt.You have to search crontab or cronjob
Then kill process using process id
Here:
sudo kill -9 29587
Format
sudo kill -9 <process_id>
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
I want to run a Unix command (e.g. ls) at 5 minute intervals through a script.
Explanation:
I have a Unix script. In that script I have a command called "ls".
I want that "ls" command to run every 5 minutes from that script.
Use watch. The -n flag specifies interval in seconds, so
watch -n 300 ls
while true; do
ls
sleep 300
done
?
Put your script into the Crontab via
crontab -e
More information about Cron you can find at wikipedia
You could use crontab for example. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron
for example i you want to run your script every five minutes via crontab it should look something like this:
#m h dom mon dow user command
*/5 * * * * root /path/to/script
crontab
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron
or
svc
http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html