Cron设置正确（我认为）但没有运行

Question

I have set some commands in my crontab, but it seems like they are not executed.

• PHP version is 7+
• CentOS 7

This is my list when I run "crontab -u username -l"

45 0 * * * username /usr/bin/php /var/www/production/site/scripts/process1.php
*/2 * * * * username /usr/bin/php /var/www/production/site/scripts/process2.php
25 * * * * username /usr/bin/php /var/www/production/api/scripts/process3.php

username is an existing user and has rights to the PHP files. Same results when I use the root user.

When I run "Which php" I get the result below:

/usr/bin/php

So that seems to be OK too.

/var/log/cron shows me lines like this, so it appears to be called

CROND[29053]: (username) CMD (username /usr/bin/php /var/www/production/site/scripts/process1.php)

When I run the commands manually all works well, so the processx.php files seem to be OK.

I am running out of ideas... Can anybody point me to the right direction to tackle my (probably silly) mistake?

Answer 1

Alright, it is working... Still not 100% sure why it was not before. But this is what I changed:

removed the processes with the command "crontab -e" and deleted the 3 commands there. Then:

nano /etc/crontab

Added the commands there (with the right user to execute them) e voila!

Difference was that I used /etc/crontab directly and not using crontab -e.

Although I am now still curious why this is working and my first attempt through crontab -e is not... So, if anybody knows why, please let me know!