Running Cron won't work / Nextcloud 25.0.3

Hello

My System:
Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS / Apache 2.4.41 / PHP 7.4.3 / MariaDB 10.3.37 / Nextcloud 25.0.3

In the settings for “Background-Jobs” I set “Cron”; then I followd the manual for Cron

  • first I tried the crontab way: crontab -u www-data -e => */5 **** php -f /path/to/cron.php
  • second I tried the systemd way with a cron.service and a cron.timer file (copied exactly the examples from the manual, but adapting the path to php and cron.php) followed by the commands systemctl daemon-reload; sytemctl enable cron.timer, systemctl start cron.timer

In both cases the cronjob dosen’t work, so that in Nextcloud settings I have an warning “… something wen’t wrong”

What works is using the commandline and the command: sudo -u www-data php -f /path/to/cron.php

Has anybody an idea what prevents the cronjobs from running?

Kind regards, go4ncloud

Problem solved: Typing error => OnUnitActivSec instead of OnUnitActiveSec

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