https://jira.astppbilling.org This file is an XML representation of an issue en-us 8.13.3 813003 14-01-2021 https://jira.astppbilling.org/browse/ASTPPCOM-261 ASTPP Community <p>The crontab entries are added without a user name which causes<br/> cron<span class="error">&#91;510&#93;</span>: Error: bad username; while reading /etc/crontab<br/> cron<span class="error">&#91;510&#93;</span>: (<em>system</em>) ERROR (Syntax error, this crontab file will be ignored)<br/> in syslog. This explains why my cron.hourly hasn't been running.</p> <p>Inserting a valid user (like root - NOT recommended for production) between the <tt>_ _ *</tt> and the <tt>cd</tt> makes it work</p> <div class="code panel" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent"> <pre class="code-bash"> <span class="code-comment"># Generate Invoice </span>0 1 * * * root cd /var/www/html/astpp/cron/ &amp;&amp; php cron.php GenerateInvoice <span class="code-comment"># Low balance notification </span>0 1 * * * root cd /var/www/html/astpp/cron/ &amp;&amp; php cron.php UpdateBalance <span class="code-comment"># Low balance notification </span>0 0 * * * root cd /var/www/html/astpp/cron/ &amp;&amp; php cron.php LowBalance <span class="code-comment"># Update currency rate </span>0 0 * * * root cd /var/www/html/astpp/cron/ &amp;&amp; php cron.php CurrencyUpdate <span class="code-comment"># Email Broadcasting </span>0 0 * * * root cd /var/www/html/astpp/cron/ &amp;&amp; php cron.php BroadcastEmail </pre> </div></div> ASTPPCOM-261

Crontab entries missing user which makes cron stop working entirely

New Feature Done Done Samir Doshi alexheylin Sat, 11 Nov 2017 09:52:31 +0530 Thu, 1 Apr 2021 19:01:00 +0530 Thu, 1 Apr 2021 19:01:00 +0530 0 0 <p><span class="error">&#91;~AlexHeylin&#93;</span> </p> <p>You can setup astpp script in cron like below which is already in installation script. Also that is working fine on centos/debian.</p> <p>setup_cron()<br/> {<br/> if [ ${DIST} = "DEBIAN" ]; then<br/> CRONPATH='/var/spool/cron/crontabs/astpp'<br/> elif [ ${DIST} = "CENTOS" ]; then<br/> CRONPATH='/var/spool/cron/astpp'<br/> fi<br/> echo "# Generate Invoice <br/> 0 1 _ _ * cd /var/www/html/astpp/cron/ &amp;&amp; php cron.php GenerateInvoice</p> <ol> <li>Low balance notification<br/> 0 1 _ _ * cd /var/www/html/astpp/cron/ &amp;&amp; php cron.php UpdateBalance</li> <li>Low balance notification<br/> 0 0 _ _ * cd /var/www/html/astpp/cron/ &amp;&amp; php cron.php LowBalance </li> <li>Update currency rate<br/> 0 0 _ _ * cd /var/www/html/astpp/cron/ &amp;&amp; php cron.php CurrencyUpdate</li> <li>Email Broadcasting<br/> _ _ _ _ * cd /var/www/html/astpp/cron/ &amp;&amp; php cron.php BroadcastEmail<br/> " &gt; $CRONPATH<br/> chmod 600 $CRONPATH<br/> crontab $CRONPATH<br/> }<br/> Still if you are getting any issue then you need to look in cron configuration on your server.</li> </ol> Development External issue ID 261 Rank 0|i00a8v: