Nextcloud version (eg, 18.0.2): 18.0.4 (stable at this moment)
Operating system and version (eg, Ubuntu 20.04): Debian Stretch 9.12
Apache or nginx version (eg, Apache 2.4.25): Apache/2.4.25 (Debian)
PHP version (eg, 7.1): PHP 7.4.6
The issue you are facing:
I set up cron following the docs (and others cron doc/tuto I found) but it seems it’s not even called once
I did crontab -u www-data -e
and add the cron
now I have this (crontab -u www-data -l
):
# Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron.
#
# Each task to run has to be defined through a single line
# indicating with different fields when the task will be run
# and what command to run for the task
#
# To define the time you can provide concrete values for
# minute (m), hour (h), day of month (dom), month (mon),
# and day of week (dow) or use '*' in these fields (for 'any').#
# Notice that tasks will be started based on the cron's system
# daemon's notion of time and timezones.
#
# Output of the crontab jobs (including errors) is sent through
# email to the user the crontab file belongs to (unless redirected).
#
# For example, you can run a backup of all your user accounts
# at 5 a.m every week with:
# 0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/
#
# For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8)
#
# m h dom mon dow command
MAILTO=mymail
*/5 * * * * www-data /usr/bin/php7.4 -f /var/www/html/nextcloud/cron.php >> /var/log/cron.log
If I understood what i read, it should run the cron.php with www-data user.
but the log file I added isn’t even created.
I laso tried the following crontab line
*/5 * * * * php -f /var/www/html/nextcloud/cron.php >> /var/log/cron.log
but no result either
For now I came back to ajax, but I’d like to set up the Cron to not load it every page load.
Steps to replicate it:
- set up cron following the docs (see the crontab above)
- wait for the cron
- wait again…
The output of your Nextcloud log in Admin > Logging:
not relevant, I didn’t have an error for the last hour I try to set up the cron.
I had error on Groupfolders rights, but as said, not relevant with the cron not running.
The output of your config.php file in /path/to/nextcloud
(make sure you remove any identifiable information!):
<?php
$CONFIG = array (
'instanceid' => '***',
'passwordsalt' => '***',
'secret' => '***',
'trusted_domains' =>
array (
0 => '***',
),
'datadirectory' => '/var/www/html/nextcloud/data',
'overwrite.cli.url' => 'https://***/nextcloud',
'dbtype' => 'mysql',
'version' => '18.0.4.2',
'dbname' => 'nextcloud',
'dbhost' => '127.0.0.1:3306',
'dbport' => '',
'dbtableprefix' => 'oc_',
'dbuser' => 'oc_***',
'dbpassword' => '***',
'installed' => true,
'htaccess.RewriteBase' => '/nextcloud',
'maintenance' => false,
'theme' => '',
'loglevel' => 2,
'updater.release.channel' => 'stable',
'mysql.utf8mb4' => true,
'mail_smtpmode' => 'smtp',
'mail_smtpsecure' => 'ssl',
'mail_sendmailmode' => 'smtp',
'mail_from_address' => '***',
'mail_domain' => 'gmail.com',
'mail_smtpauthtype' => 'LOGIN',
'mail_smtpauth' => 1,
'mail_smtphost' => 'smtp.gmail.com',
'mail_smtpport' => '465',
'mail_smtpname' => '***@gmail.com',
'mail_smtppassword' => '***',
'skeletondirectory' => '',
'filelocking.enabled' => true,
);
The output of your Apache/nginx/system log in /var/log/apache2/error.log
:
[Sun May 24 00:47:04.993738 2020] [authz_core:debug] [pid 16651] mod_authz_core.c(809): [client ***] AH01626: authorization result of <RequireAny>: granted
I only have the above error
i have that from the begining and never took the time to take a look at this one.
I know the cron problem came a lot but none of the thread I read helped me.
I really don’t see where my problem is.
My nextcloud folder is owned by www-data:www-data
my crontab is set for www-data and target the cron.php file.