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Do cron jobs need to run as root?

stevegoldenbergstevegoldenberg
edited June 2013 in Questions

When setting up the cron jobs, is it necessary to run them as root (so use sudo crontab -e instead of just crontab -e to set them up?).

I'm running a LAMP stack on Amazon EC2.

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  • BenBen

    Hi @stevegoldenberg,

    Yes you need to setup your cron jobs as root, sudo crontab -e on Amazon EC2 LAMP stack.

    Thanks.

    Best regards,
    Ben

  • stevegoldenbergstevegoldenberg

    @Ben, thank you. I'm stuck though, I installed them as root (sudo crontab -e) and they seem to be running (according to syslog at least https://www.dropbox.com/s/fa88cgbbgveg6om/Screenshot_6_21_13_10_57_AM.png) but the dialogs haven't cleared from my sendy installation yet.

    Any suggestions on what to look at?

  • BenBen
    edited June 2013

    Hi @stevegoldenberg,

    Try using the full path to php:

    */5 * * * * /opt/bitnami/php/bin/php /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs/sendy/scheduled.php > /dev/null 2>&1

    */1 * * * * /opt/bitnami/php/bin/php /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs/sendy/autoresponders.php > /dev/null 2>&1

    Hope this helps.

    Best regards,
    Ben

  • stevegoldenbergstevegoldenberg

    Boom. Thanks, works great now.

    This is one hell of a piece of software.

  • BenBen

    This is one hell of a piece of software.

    Thank you!

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