Having difficulties getting cron jobs to work on new server (after migration)

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Hi,

I have two cron jobs, with syntax:

(using it on phplist 3.0.12)

/home/user/public_html/folder/mlist/admin/index.php -pprocessbounces

/home/user/public_html/folder/mlist/admin/index.php -pprocessqueue

The paths are the correct paths to the index.php files
When I log on as admin I see that nothing has been processed yet.

Kindly tell me what I have to add to these commands to make them work ?

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You should capture the output of the command to see what phplist thinks is wrong.

3

Hi Duncan,

So you believe the commands are correct as I copied them ? This normally should work ? Just making sure.

How do I capture the output of the command ?

4

Are you aware of the online manual? See this section on cron jobs
https://www.phplist.org/manual/ch036_setting-up-your-cron.xhtml

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I had already looked into that as well, but I followed instructions from a different page I think.

I’m trying this now: (On a cPanel server, the CLI build of PHP is /usr/local/bin/php)

/usr/local/bin/php
-c /home/user/public_html/folder/mlist/config/config.php -q
/home/user/public_html/folder/mlist/admin/index.php
-pprocessqueue >> /home/user/public_html/cron_log.txt

The error I constantly log now is: ‘Cannot find config file’

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Let me correct this myself:

/usr/local/bin/php -q /home/user/public_html/folder/mlist/admin/index.php -c /home/user/public_html/folder/mlist/config/config.php -pprocessqueue >> /home/user/public_html/cron_log.txt

Works well now !!

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