Cron Jobs Running

[galenb]

How do you tell if your cron jobs are running correctly?

or the inverse...

How do you tell if your cron jobs are not running correctly?

[Randy Calvert]

If you have access to the server logs, look in the cron job log (typically /var/log/cron). 

If you don’t see an error warning in the ACP it’s fine.  

[galenb]

Yeah! Dreamhost doesn't give you access to the cron logs.

I see the attached in admincp->System->Settings->Advanced Configuration on the Server Environment tab.

 

And when you click on the View Tasks link the dates don't seem to be changing. This is a very low volume site.

[Randy Calvert]

If you are set to use cron jobs, if the task is not running… there will be a big warning shown on the front page of your ACP. 

[galenb]

22 hours ago, Randy Calvert said:

If you are set to use cron jobs, if the task is not running… there will be a big warning shown on the front page of your ACP. 

Now big warning so guess I'm ok!

[galenb]

Been checking this off and on and they run periodically some every 5 minutes and some once a week ... So I guess that's good!!!

 

Thanks! Randy Calvert