Cron in virtual server with Plesk 12.5 can't find the find command

[IATechsupport]

I'm trying to setup a simple cron job from Plesk GUI to delete the contents of a dir every day.

with:

find /var/www/vhosts/domain.name/httpdocs/var/session -name 'sess*' -type f -print -delete

when I run it all I get is " find command not found"

 

[Lloyd_mcse]

Hi IATechsupport,
try using the full path to find...

/usr/bin/find /var/www/vhosts/domain.name/httpdocs/var/session -name 'sess*' -type f -print -delete

Regards

Lloyd

 

[IATechsupport]

I have tried that, and get -: /usr/bin/find: No such file or directory instead.

 

[Lloyd_mcse]

Where are you running the command from? Under the domain, or in...

Tools & Setting > Scheduled Tasks

Regards

Lloyd

EDIT: If under the domain try like...

/usr/bin/find /httpdocs/var/session -name 'sess*' -type f -print -delete
or
find /httpdocs/var/session -name 'sess*' -type f -print -delete

Should work too.

 

[IATechsupport]

I have tried it from a) Server Control Panel - Tools & Settings - Scheduled Tasks b) Client Control Panel - Scheduled Tasks.
Both give the same errors.

 

[IATechsupport]

we also get this error when we logout of Plesk client control panel,

ERROR: PleskFatalException
Original link and target URL should be on the same domain.

Not sure if it's related in some way

regards
Alan

 

[IATechsupport]

Neither work, -: /usr/bin/find: No such file or directory and -: find command not found

 

[Alvin_Allen]

It's possible your cron is running in a chrooted shell. See this KB: https://kb.plesk.com/en/115889

 

[IATechsupport]

That worked ok thanks...

 

[Tommy10]

I had the same issue. Solution of KB #115889 works great. Thanks!

But you should be aware of that users may be able to do things in the global environment. This could be a security issue.

It might be better to add the application to the chroot environment: https://kb.plesk.com/de/115842

 

[IATechsupport]

Thanks for that info, I want to try and add "Find" to the chrooted environment, but my attempts such as this ./chroot_update.sh --add '/usr/bin/find' come back with a warning
find is not a program file.

How then do I add it ?

Thanks

 

[Lloyd_mcse]

Install find...

Debian
# apt-get install findutils

CentOS
# yum install findutils

If I remember correctly.
Regards

Lloyd

 

[IATechsupport]

"Find" is already installed, and its a virtual container with CentOS 6.

 

[UFHH01]

Hi IATechsupport,

when "findutils" are installe, you might use:

./chroot_update.sh --add `which find`​

or​

/FULL/PATH/TO/chroot_update.sh --add `which find`​

 

[IATechsupport]

I tried: ./root/chroot_update.sh --add 'which find'

and the response was:

./root/chroot_update.sh: line 240: [: which: binary operator expected
WARNING: which is not a program (filetype cannot open `which' (No such file or directory)). Skipping.

 

[Lloyd_mcse]

Is which installed?

# yum install which

Regards

Lloyd

 

[IATechsupport]

yes
Package which-2.19-6.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version