Cron job is not working

Question

I have a cron job configured at var/spool/cron/testuser, Am calling adindex.sh file from there.

Am getting results when am directly put the command directly in prompt(php and sh), But cron is not processing this one. I tried to log the cron using tail -f /var/log/cron and got:

Feb 19 04:05:01 ip-118-139-177-76 CROND[18164]: (inwhosting) CMD (/home/testuser/cronlogs/adindex.sh)

Edit: Output for crontab -l

MAILTO=""
*/5     *       *       *       *       /home/testuser/cronlogs/adindex.sh
*/5     *       *       *       *       /home/testuser/cronlogs/sendemail.sh
*/5     *       *       *       *       /home/testuser/cronlogs/sendsms.sh

Ouput of cat /home/testuser/cronlogs/adindex.sh

#wget --user=admin--password=pswd123 http://www.exmaple.com/advertiser/cron/updateindex?cron_key=Inw1234 -O /home/testuser/cronlogs/ad/log_`date "+%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M"`.txt

php /var/www/html/exmaple/cron/advt_index.php
php /var/www/html/exmaple/cron/ad_index.php

Anybody please tell me what is going wrong?

Solution 1

You have to execute it using sh; here is my example

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30 11 * * * sh /home/user/backup.sh
30 17 * * * sh /home/user/backup.sh

have a look here cronjob

Solution 2

Fixed this issue. It was a permission issue of calling sh files from cron.

Comments

[X Tian]

There's a typo somewhere in your question is adindex.sh a php script or a shell script. your log shows cron is attempting to execute your command, what does your command look like why do you think it isn't running ?

[Prajila V P]

My cron job is to index the solr database, and it is not indexing via cron job. I tried this via command line and works fine

[S edwards]

what is the name of your script ? is it a php script or shell script ?

[Prajila V P]

in main cron page i am giving a shell script adindex.sh, which is for executing some php scripts

[S edwards]

can you edit your question to add the result of cron -l

[Hauke Laging]

Is php in cron's $PATH?

[Angel Todorov]

Are you executing the shell script with a php interpreter?

[Prajila V P]

Fixed the issue. It was "Permission denied" problem from cron

[Kusalananda]

Since the user has "a cron job configured at var/spool/cron/testuser", it makes me believe they manually edited that file rather than using crontab -e. This would explain why some jobs are not running.

[phemmer]

Or chmod a+x /home/user/backup.sh (assuming it has a shebang).