Issue Problem with CRON

[igorinpero]

I have a pretty big problem with backing up to my plesk server. The problem is probably that CRON does not execute automatically. If I enter cron jobs from the platform and click "run", everything works fine, but automatic backups at 4 am (that's what I set) do not work. Here is the log:

Mar 5 09:55:01 inpero CRON[25764]: Authentication failure
Mar 5 09:55:01 inpero CRON[25765]: Authentication failure
Mar 5 10:00:01 inpero CRON[26226]: Authentication failure
Mar 5 10:00:01 inpero CRON[26228]: Authentication failure
Mar 5 10:00:01 inpero CRON[26227]: Authentication failure
Mar 5 10:05:01 inpero CRON[26599]: Authentication failure
Mar 5 10:05:01 inpero CRON[26600]: Authentication failure
Mar 5 10:09:01 inpero CRON[27284]: Authentication failure
Mar 5 10:10:01 inpero CRON[27389]: Authentication failure
Mar 5 10:10:01 inpero CRON[27388]: Authentication failure
Mar 5 10:13:01 inpero CRON[27646]: Authentication failure


chmods seems ok



Additionally, can someone send me a default cron for plesk?

 

[igorinpero]

 

[Kaspar]

Perhaps this article offers some help for your issue?

Cron Authentication Failure error in Linux?

I was bogged with an error “Authentication Failure” for all of my cron jobs in Linux Ubunutu. root@Test:~# tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep cron Dec 11 16:38:01 Test cron[14861]: Authentication fail...

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[Bitpalast]

I think that @igorinpero has a custom record in a cron file that is malformatted. That's why the file won't be executed.