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Garrett
Asked: 2010-08-07 05:19:49 +0800 CST

CronTab Not Logging Any Errors?

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EDIT:

i am getting a 406 error page with this cron!

here is the crontab (copied from cPanel):

    * * * * * GET https://abc.com/cron/sendBulletinEmails.php >>
/home/abc/public_html/cron/logs/sendBulletinEmails.log

here is the log:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>406 Not Acceptable</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Acceptable</h1>
<p>An appropriate representation of the requested resource /cron/sendSurveyEmails.php could not be found on this server.</p>
<p>Additionally, a 404 Not Found
error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.</p>
</body></html>

here is my crontab:

* * * * * { cd /var/www/cron && /usr/bin/php -f sendQueuedEmails.php ;} | /usr/bin/logger -t sendQueuedEmails

i am running ubuntu.

i am not seeing any logs in:

/var/log/cron
/var/log/messages
/var/mysql/log

where can it be?

logging apache-2.2 cron

3 Answers

  1. grep "CRON" /var/log/syslog

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  2. It should be noted that A) you're not redirecting standard error. So if your scripts are bombing, the errors won't result in the messages file. So put a 2>&1 before the pipe. B) Cron doesn't have squat for environment variables. Are you sure your php script is actually working? There's a good chance it's choking, and hence why there's no output. Try sourcing in your login script like so: . /home/user/.bashrc


    --Christopher Karel

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  3. Best Answer

    it wasn't logging anything. after using GET in my cron (thanks to this answer), i append the output to a log file, like so:

    * * * * * GET http://localhost/cron/sendQueuedEmails.php >> /var/www/cron/logs/sendQueuedEmails.log
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