#5074 Cronjob handler

[Allan Lohse]

This is on webmin version 1872

when i edit conjobs it seperates it with tabs instead of space, and then cronjob won't run.
before
0 * * * * php /home/ipnummer.......
after edit
0 * * * * php /home/ipnummer......
Then i need to manualy edit it back to not using tabs

[Allan Lohse]

image of error instead

[Jamie Cameron]

Which operatijng system are you running there? Webmin has always used spaces, and this works fine on all systems that I'm aware of.

[Allan Lohse]

Its a clean install ubuntu 14.04, language Danish and runned the virtualmin install script. I have 10 servers running 14.04 with older webmin versions and there is not this problem.
I have tried to install 2 more servers and both have same issue..

[Jamie Cameron]

Are you using the regular cron package? You can check by running dpkg --list | grep cron

[Allan Lohse]

web17@vm:~$ dpkg --list | grep cron
ii cron 3.0pl1-124ubuntu2 amd64 process scheduling daemon

[Jamie Cameron]

Ok, that looks like standard cron.

Are you sure that the job isn't executing?

[Allan Lohse]

after a change in Webmin i have to manualy edit the crontab -e to remove tab seperation and make space seperation for the cron to work again.

[Jamie Cameron]

Did you happen to notice which Webmin version triggered this?

[Allan Lohse]

I have made a clean install ubuntu 14.04 run the old virtualmin install script because i need php5, put in a webmin backup for a domain. This domain uses cron to do alot of things and they did't work.
The i checked the webmin version to be 1872.
Is it posibble to force a lower version in the install script ? Then i will test that.

[IMT]

1.872 in my case. Is this related with? Because i was notified by Jamie

https://sourceforge.net/p/webadmin/bugs/5078/

https://www.virtualmin.com/node/54935

[IMT]

and to answer your question if the system is running low on memory 75% of the ram is free and the use of swap is 0 bytes.

[Allan Lohse]

Same thing happens if i add cron jobs to /etc/crontab
Picture is after a edit in webmin

[Jamie Cameron]

Looks like this change was made here : https://github.com/webmin/webmin/commit/7a184506e71d93eb636e1d7fa827584cf70b7429

I will following up with the author of that change..

[Allan Lohse]

Great :-) Thanks