Cronjob - Not working / Strange behavior

First, please excuse my english. It's been some years since I "used" it. I'm a complete noob if things tangents linux. Let my describe the problem situation: I use a redmine appliance (V11) within our company. In this appliance I integrated an so called "whining" addon which should send an email, if tickets are pending for quite some time. In the prior redmine appliance (V10) this worked without problems. Now it seems like cron never starts the job - no matter what periods of time I set. I also changed the user from www-data to root - but this also didn't brought a solution. If I start the cronjob by myself (logged in as root) it works like it should. Please tell me what informations else you need to assess/gather the problem. Thank you very much! :) Leon

Replies (5)

No one got an idea?

Reply 1 2011-04-28

No one got an idea?

No sorry

Reply 2 2011-05-03

I have not set up any custom cron jobs and the default TKL ones seem to work fine so I have no idea. It may be worth searching and/or posting on the Ubuntu forums as TKL v11.x is based on Ubuntu Server 10.04.

What I normally do is

Reply 3 2011-10-15

What I normally do is to source my .profile or /etc/profile in my script to ensure I have the same environment for my cron jobs as my interactive shell.

Can also just use full path for scripts to run

Reply 4 2011-10-14

I acidentally just found that out while working on something else! :)

It looks like cron is not

Reply 5 2011-10-14

It looks like cron is not setting up the same environment as you have when logged in as root. The error " /var/www/recieve_mail_bash.sh: 6: rake: not found" is saying that the 'rake' program is not in your path.

This is how cron works. If you want a profile setup, you'll need to do so from cron or the script itself.