On upgrade to 4.6.6. I have found that my cron has stopped working. I can still get cron to run if I run it from the browser bar at http://kiloalphatango.com/cron.php but my scheduled crontab is no longer working. I have not changed the crontab file.

I had this happen to me before on upgrade to 4.5.5 and after about 3 weeks of trying to escalate the cron problem up the tech support tree to someone who knew what they were talking about at 1and1 they eventually told me that there was an extra space in the cron-lynx.sh file. Remembering this, I did not overwrite this file when I upgraded but I still have encountered a problem (Maybe I've done something idiotic when I upgraded - I don't know any more I've tried so many things).

My cron-lynx.sh file contains:

#!/bin/sh

/usr/bin/lynx -source http://kiloalphatango.com/cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1

I've tried uploading it (with SmartFTP 2.0) by both ASCII and Binary types. I have edited the file using Notepad and saved it using ANSI and UTF-8 encoding (I thought that might make a difference) and not managed to get it to run automatically at all.

Is there anyone who might be able to help as I've reached my limit of understanding and ideas to try.

Cheers, Kat.

Comments

greggles’s picture

It sounds like you've taken all the right steps to get it working right. At this point all I could recommend is that you ask their support again.

Also, I'd be happy to add your site to my cron file if you'd like. I run it nightly.

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larsboelman’s picture

Has CRON got the appropriate permissions to execute the script? Changing it to 744 fixed my problem with running the cron-lynx.sh file.

smallfluffykat’s picture

Unfortunately that doesn't appear to be the problem. Mine was set to 755 (and 744 just to check) and it still didn't work. Thank you for the suggestion anyway.

Kat.