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cron

  1. B

    Issue Cronjobs not showing inside plesk

    I had a lot of cron jobs with wrong paths so I edited them via /var/spool/cron files and after saving I dont see them inside plesk? How to fix that?
  2. J

    Issue Cron /usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news sending mails every 5 minute

    Hi! Today all of a sudden I started to receive emails every 5 minute from "Cron Daemon" with the following subject: "Cron <[email protected]> /usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news" Sent to: [email protected] With the following text body of the email: " Traceback (most recent call last): File...
  3. I

    Question Cron Job / Event / Task - How to

    Hi, is anyone can tell me how to create cron job or similar for example at 00:15h to turn off the postfix on server and at 05:00h to start again Many thanks in advance
  4. Quinten

    Issue Plesk Cron Fetch a URL not working 404

    Hello, My customer runs a webshop (prestashop) and needs to have a daily cron to run to generate a sitemap. I get the following error: Task "JuXtra BV" completed with error in 2 seconds, output: Url 'JuXtra BV' fetched Status: 404 Output: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">...
  5. C

    Issue Specific Scheduled Task (cronjob) isn't working

    We are having a problem with a specific Scheduled Task in Plesk. It's strange, because it works for a while and then fails for a while. And it works perfectly when run manually. The task runs daily at 06:00, it's run by the subscription user (not root), it's a "Fetch an URL" task type and it...
  6. gennolo

    Issue Scheduled task stuck in "not_started" status

    Hi there, I have setup a scheduled task in Plesk to launch a PHP script twice a day : If I launch it directly the script from shell with /opt/plesk/php/7.4/bin/php /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/folder/shop.php it takes about 1 min to and runs ok. But.... When clicking "Run Now" my...
  7. J

    Issue Cron fails with HTML code as output

    Hi Everyone I'm having an issue on a Wordpress website. The cron job fails when the plugins Yoast and WP-rocket are activated together. Unfortunately the error output is not clear. I get the HTML code output, but cannot see any details. Does anyone know where I have to look to see all of it...
  8. J

    Resolved Cron mail not sent with output

    Hello I have a mail problem with cron tasks. In tasks I checked to send an email always. Well, I have cron tasks that produce output but cron does not send the email. I con not see any error in maillog nor cron logs. And I don't know if it's related with, but when I get my profile I see an...
  9. Talistech

    Resolved fetch_url command suddenly broken in chrooted environment

    Hi fellow Pleskians, I broke the fetch_url command in a chrooted environment for only 1 specific user. I'm getting the following mail sent by failed cron jobs: -: line 1: /opt/psa/admin/sbin/fetch_url: No such file or directory Running/fetching the urls via the web interface works well, no...
  10. S

    Question Can a client create a cron?

    Hello, I create a client on plesk for an user and this user needs to configure a cron. But I don´t see the option if I access with a clients keys (right menu, sheduled task) I see the option only if I access with root keys in plesk. Can a client create and configure crons?
  11. P

    Resolved How to Check Plesk Wordpress Cron Firing?

    Hello, I activated the cron tool (Take over wp-cron.php) from the WP Toolkit page on Plesk. Running the wp-cron.php file after the specified time has expired. I want to check if this request exists in the index.php file in the wp-content folder. So, when this file is executed by plesk, I want...
  12. P

    Resolved Working with Schedule a Task

    Hi, I don't use the plesk forum much. Apologies in advance if I'm not asking this in the right thread. I would like to ask a question about the use of "Plesk Schedule a Task". I've never used this before. But for now I think it might work. I would be glad if you guide me. I have a website...
  13. V

    Resolved PHP Warning: unlink(/usr/local/psa/var/modules/watchdog/report/security_2022-01-31): No such file or directory

    Dear Plesk team, On Jan 29th, I noticed the following cron error: PHP Warning: unlink(/usr/local/psa/var/modules/watchdog/report/security_2022-01-24): No such file or directory in /usr/local/psa/libexec/modules/watchdog/cp/clean-reports on line 11 Today, I received a similar cron error: PHP...
  14. X

    Issue flock: failed to execute /opt/alt/python38/bin/python3: No such file or directory

    I am getting the below email from my Pleask server and don't know what is it or how to get this fixed. The subject line of the email: Cron <root@server> /usr/bin/flock -n /var/run/shrinker.lock /opt/alt/python38/bin/python3 /opt/alt/modsec-sdbm-util/bin/shrinker.py > /dev/null the email...
  15. M

    Resolved Scheduled Tasks / CRONs - Wrong Timezone Compounding Issue?

    I have a very strange issue. After using the Plesk Migrator last year, I successfully re-launched on a new server. My only problem is my CRONs now run late. My system timezone is Australia/Brisbane, which is +10 GMT. I've updated it via SSH, the System Time option, I've set the time to be...
  16. carini

    Issue crontab does not end

    Cron jobs does not terminate on Plesk. Note: Server has been rebooted after uprgrade root@pleskXY:~# ps --forest -eo pid,ppid,user:10,tty,stat,pcpu,nlwp,time,pmem,rss:10,drs:10,size:10,lstart,cmd PID PPID USER TT STAT %CPU NLWP TIME %MEM RSS DRS SIZE...
  17. D

    Issue Plesk doesn't send cron notifications when mail service has never been activated

    Hi there, I have found what I believe to be a bug but as I do not have 5 helpful posts, I'm not able to use the relevant section. We used to receive email notifications when errors occured with our fetch-url-type cron jobs until I assume some Plesk update this year changed something and we...
  18. E

    Issue High Disk Throughput (vhostingmng-find)

    Hi All, I'm seeing high disk usage on my Plesk server every morning between 6:15am and about 9:30 - 9:45am, I'm trying to figure out what's causing it and how to reschedule and or deactivate it. Disk usage is around 100MiB/s until around 8:30am when it drops down to around 20-50MiB/s this...
  19. V

    Issue I have a long-time cron with URL type.

    I have a long-time cron with URL type. A script running ~270 seconds. Alert set - Every time. But alert not recivied.
  20. L

    Resolved Php script is working from the browser but not from Cron Job

    Hello.... I have this simple code to check if a php file is running if not it start it... error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE); $output = shell_exec('ps -C php -f'); if (strpos($output, "php launchListener.php")===false) { shell_exec('php launchListener.php > /dev/null &'); } It work...
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