cron job running 12 hours off

hattori.hanzo · 04-06-2009, 11:31 PM

I have a few cron jobs which used to run at the correct time but now they are 12 hours off. The system time is set to UTC.

The cron job schedules has not been changed. The date command is showing the time as UTC.

thanks & regards

maxy7710 · 04-06-2009, 11:39 PM

can you attache the logs from /var/log/cron, so that we can see whats going wrong.
also post u r crontab file.

hattori.hanzo · 04-06-2009, 11:47 PM

System time

Code:

[root@box log]# date
Tue Apr  7 04:43:08 UTC 2009

/var/log/cron

Note: the system time and timestamp in cron's log is different.

Code:

Apr  7 14:25:01 box crond[30730]: (root) CMD (php /var/www/html/syslog/scripts/reloadcache.php >> /var/log/php-syslog-ng/reloadcache.log)
Apr  7 14:30:01 box crond[30742]: (root) CMD (php /var/www/html/syslog/scripts/reloadcache.php >> /var/log/php-syslog-ng/reloadcache.log)
Apr  7 14:35:01 box crond[30756]: (root) CMD (php /var/www/html/syslog/scripts/reloadcache.php >> /var/log/php-syslog-ng/reloadcache.log)
Apr  7 14:40:01 box crond[30768]: (root) CMD (php /var/www/html/syslog/scripts/reloadcache.php >> /var/log/php-syslog-ng/reloadcache.log)

crontab

Code:

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/
#
0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * php /var/www/html/syslog/scripts/reladcache.php >> /var/log/php-syslog-ng/reloadcache.log

maxy7710 · 04-07-2009, 01:49 AM

First of all simplyfy u r cron by using

*/5 * * * * php /var/www/html/syslog/scripts/reladcache.php >> /var/log/php-syslog-ng/reloadcache.log

above mentioned script will run every 5 mins

now can u attach /var/www/html/syslog/scripts/reladcache.php script for further review

one more thing, when u run

php /var/www/html/syslog/scripts/reladcache.php >> /var/log/php-syslog-ng/reloadcache.log

from command line, does everything works fine

maxy7710 · 04-07-2009, 01:50 AM

also attach this log

/var/log/php-syslog-ng/reloadcache.log