CRON job on DA box

[ozzie]

Hi,

 

I'm struggling to get the cron job running on a Direct Admin box.

I don't think it's running. I am not getting a fail email from cron nor am I getting a report from the WHMCS job telling me what has been done.

 

Contrary to Cpanel, in DA there is no reply email to be set up for the cron queue.

 

I have tried to set up the PHP as well as the lynx job.

So a really have a few questions:

Anyone running WHMCS on a DA box?
How do I find out if the cron is running or not?
Should I move WHMCS to a Cpanel box?

Oh, I don't have SSH access to this box to try from the command line

TIA,

 

Ozzie

[Matt]

Open a ticket with the url to your WHMCS install and I can try manually running it and see what happens.

[ozzie]

UPDATE

 

I got a result (email from WHMCS) but don't know from wich job.

I didn't remove the test entries I created earlier this afternoon.

 

The email was timestamped Mon 15-Jan-07 7:11 PM and the job ran at :

Cron Job Report for 15-01-2007 03:11:17

 

HOwever the crpon jobs were scheduled for

* 17 * * * php -q /home/*path tp WHMCS*/admin/cron.php > /dev/null

55 22 * * * GET http://*URL*/*PATH*/admin/cron.php

50 22 * * * php -q /home/*path tp WHMCS*/admin/cron.php

 

It must be one of the latter jobs that worked cos the first one has been there for a while now. Funny though that it ran only at 03:11:17

Must have been one hell of a queue in front of it???

I must check when they are running their backups.

 

At least it is now only a matter of elimination to work it out.

 

Cheers, Ozzie

[ozzie]

Open a ticket with the url to your WHMCS install and I can try manually running it and see what happens.

 

Done

[generic]

look in your server logs and see what is running correct, etc.

[bodhisattva]

55 22 * * * /usr/local/bin/php -q /home/path/to/admin/cron.php > /dev/null

[ozzie]

55 22 * * * /usr/local/bin/php -q /home/path/to/admin/cron.php > /dev/null

 

Yes the /bin/ did the trick.

 

Thanks,

 

Ozzie