Re: [webmin-l] Problem with Scheduled Cron Jobs

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 01/Mar/2008 09:46 Sasa wrote ..
> Ho, I have created a new 'Scheduled Cron Jobs' but if I execute this jobs 
> with 'run now' it's all ok but when it is schedule isn't running.
> In '/var/spool/cron' I have:
> 
> [root@asterisk1 cron]# cat root
> MAILTO=""
> 8 1 * * * /usr/bin/perl /var/adm/bin/registry.pl > /dev/null 2>&1
> 51 6 * * * /etc/webmin/cron/tempdelete.pl
> 21 18 * * * /usr/sbin/amportal restart
> 
> ..and at 21 18 in 'log cron' I have:
> 
> Mar  1 18:21:01 asterisk1 crond[14630]: (root) CMD (/usr/sbin/amportal 
> restart )
> 
> ..but amportal isn't restarted !
> If 'run now' I have:
> Output from command /usr/sbin/amportal restart ..
> 
> STOPPING ASTERISK
> Asterisk Stopped
> 
> STOPPING FOP SERVER
> FOP Server Stopped
> SETTING FILE PERMISSIONS
> Permissions OK
> 
> STARTING ASTERISK
> Asterisk Started
> 
> STARTING FOP SERVER
> FOP Server Started
> 
> ..where is my error ?
> Thanks.

Perhaps it is failing due to the lack of some environment variable
that is not set when run by cron? You should change the command to :

/usr/sbin/amportal restart >/tmp/restart.log 2>&1

and see what gets logged to /tmp/restart.log when it is run from cron.

 - Jamie