Cron Jobs Refuse to Work

[devasia100022]

Hello,

My server name is "starka" with my subdomain being "http://devasiamanuel.x10.mx/" and I have been trying continually for a couple of weeks to try and get Cron Jobs to work, without sucsess.

To test the Cron Job functionality, I had created a simple PHP script which writes data to a file. The script is placed in the directory "/home/devasia/public_html/cron-test.php". I have absolutely no doubts that the script works correctly.

The command I had typed into the Cron Job menu is: "/usr/bin/php -f /home/devasia/public_html/cron-test.php" and have set it to run every 5 minutes.

Furthermore, I have not recieved any emails suggesting that the Cron Job ran sucsessfully or has failes.

Please advice me on how I can fix this problem.

Thanks,
Devasia

 

[Brandon]

Script works, looks like crond wasn't running on your server. I started the service check back in a few minutes to see if it runs correctly.

 

[Brandon]

Hello,

Just as an update this is now working.

Sep 17 05:25:02 starka crond[19485]: (devasia) CMD (/usr/local/bin/php -f /home/devasia/www/cron-test.php)
Sep 17 05:30:01 starka crond[27852]: (devasia) CMD (/usr/local/bin/php -f /home/devasia/www/cron-test.php)
Sep 17 05:35:01 starka crond[32471]: (devasia) CMD (/usr/local/bin/php -f /home/devasia/www/cron-test.php)
Sep 17 05:40:02 starka crond[2085]: (devasia) CMD (/usr/local/bin/php -f /home/devasia/www/cron-test.php)
Sep 17 05:45:01 starka crond[3349]: (devasia) CMD (/usr/local/bin/php -f /home/devasia/www/cron-test.php)
Sep 17 05:50:02 starka crond[4510]: (devasia) CMD (/usr/local/bin/php -f /home/devasia/www/cron-test.php)

root@starka [~]# cat /home/devasia/www/cron-test.txt
Cron Run at Fri, 17 Sep 2010 05:23:27 -0400 by root
Cron Run at Fri, 17 Sep 2010 05:25:02 -0400 by devasia
Cron Run at Fri, 17 Sep 2010 05:30:04 -0400 by devasia
Cron Run at Fri, 17 Sep 2010 05:35:01 -0400 by devasia
Cron Run at Fri, 17 Sep 2010 05:40:02 -0400 by devasia
Cron Run at Fri, 17 Sep 2010 05:45:01 -0400 by devasia
Cron Run at Fri, 17 Sep 2010 05:50:02 -0400 by devasia

 

[devasia100022]

Thanks Brandon!

Better disable it before I get suspended!