Centos7 Crontab jobs is not executing periodically

Question

Am using a centos7 VPS server, recently I noticed that my website Crontab is not executing periodically on it own as scheduled. I have list of cron jobs but not of it will execute when the time come, but if I login to my CWP web panel and manually click run it will execute my command successfully.

Please how do I fix my Crontab issue?

0 0,12 * * * rm -rf /home/www/temp/*

* * * * * /usr/local/bin/php /home/www/public_html/debug/cron.php >> /home/www/public_html/debug/_exec.log 2

In php cron.php

<?php 
 echo "Received Debugging Request";
?>

Try this `0 0,12 * * * rm -rf /home/www/temp/* > /tmp/crontab.log 2>&1` and inspect log. — Philippe, Nov 12 '21 at 16:10

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 12 '21 at 10:06

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Well, as I think, the crontab that is already configured should be changed to something like this:

1 0,12 * * * rm -rf /home/www/temp/*

Why is that?

Because the current configuration 0 0,12 * * * rm -rf /home/www/temp/* means:

At minute 0 past hour 0 and 12.

is probably avoiding 00:00 and 12:00 because the condition says that it must execute after 00 and 12, it should be executed at 00:01 and 12:01.

answered Nov 12 '21 at 10:06

aldegalan

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I tried this also but not executing, I am thinking that the issue might not be from the configured jobs – Peter Nov 12 '21 at 10:48
@Peter Can you check logs? At the time it should be executing, maybe we can see something there – aldegalan Nov 12 '21 at 11:11
Please which log should I check? – Peter Nov 12 '21 at 12:05

Centos7 Crontab jobs is not executing periodically

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