Funny Error with Cron Job

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The issue you are facing:

I am using system cron for background job. It was running fine until now. The cron log is giving me this error:

May 17 01:50:01 cloud CROND[2455]: (hassanenterprise) CMD (php -f /home/hassanenterprise/domains/cloud.hassanenterprise.com/public_html/nextcloud/cron.php #Nextcloud Cron)
May 17 01:50:01 cloud CROND[2455]: (CRON) ERROR chdir failed (redis): No such file or directory

I could run the cron.php script from CLI but the problem is when cron is trying to run it.

Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Y/N): Y

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Do you start the cron-job with the same user?
do you start the cron-job from the same directory?

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Hello devnull,

Thank you very much for your reply. I ran the cron-job with the same user but the home directory in the environment somehow got changed to anther one (Redis). I might have done something wrong while installing/configuring the Redis server. I have changed the home directory in the shell env of the user and everything is working fine again now. Thank you very much for your help.

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