Cron Job Issue

[Ros]

I installed WHMCS on my dedicated server approx 12 months ago and set the cron job as the GET method as the other method sent errors and wouldn't work, for quite a while the cron job was set to run once a day at 9am and everything was going fine.

 

Then I changed my logo and changed the cron job to run at 10am daily. Ever since then the cron job has been running twice a day yet it's only set up in my cpanel to run at 10am. The odd part is the first cron job which runs at 9am is using my old logo and when an account is due an invoice is generated using a previously used invoice number which has already been sent and paid for by another client so there is no way to cancel it and it doesn't show up anywhere as a new invoice, it also generates the overdue invoice notices for that invoice number, it also generates invoices for 2 clients who are no longer in the system, it's very frustrating.

 

The 10am cron job runs as it should with no issues. I changed the cron job yesterday to 9am to see if that resolved the problem, it didn't so now I have 2 jobs running at 9am.

 

Any ideas on why I am having this issue?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Ros

[othellotech]

grep (cronfilename) /var/spool/cron/*

and do a

crontab -e

 

check you dont have it twice in a spool cron file or also under root

[Ros]

grep (cronfilename) /var/spool/cron/*

and do a

crontab -e

 

check you dont have it twice in a spool cron file or also under root

 

Thanks for your reply.

 

How/where would I locate a spool cron file?

 

Cheers

Ros

[othellotech]

that would be the bit ...

 

/var/spool/cron/

[Ros]

Thanks again

 

Did a search in cpanel and no matches found for /var/spool/cron/

[othellotech]

also try

grep (cronfilename) /etc/cron*

grep (cronfilename) /etc/cron*/*

[Adam]

Hey,

 

Could just do (which will show all your cronjobs)

 

cat /var/spool/cron/cPaneluser

 

or

 

cat /var/spool/cron/cPaneluser | grep "GET whmcsurl"

(does the same as othellotech grep command)

 

Thanks,

Adam

[KuJoe]

Anybody have any luck with this? I opened up a support ticket with WHMCS but so far nothing.

[othellotech]

Anybody have any luck with this

 

everything in the OP indicates there are two scheduled jobs being run - this is an install problem not a whmcs one, and something any sysadmin should be able to diagnose and rectify

[KuJoe]

Actually I just noticed that I replied to the wrong thread.

[Ros]

Issue is now sorted, turns out that the cron jobs were still running on my old server.

 

Thanks for all the help.

 

Cheers

Ros