Checking Inbound Emails

[Uzaree]

I setup the inbound email box and setup the cron job on my server but I still can't get the check inbound emails to run. Anyone have an idea?

4.2

[jeg1972]

I just created a new file containing:

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=myemail@world.com
HOME=/

# run-parts
*/1 * * * * cd /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/live_crm; /usr/local/bin/php -f cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1

saved it and ran:

# crontab my_crontab_filename

and then

#crontab -l

should show the full new crontab entry... your permissions and user have to right for this to run of course.

John

[Uzaree]

I'm not sure I did it correctly but I still can't get it to work. My server host company is powweb so if anyone using then and has got this working then any help would be great.

[jeg1972]

What do you get if you type crontab -l ?

[Uzaree]

The hosting company I host through has a GUI that lets me add things to the crontab. I tried to add crontab -l and run it but I don't think it will let me.

[Uzaree]

Ok I set my cronjob to email me everytime it runs. So now I get an email with the job runs BUT there isn't anything in the email and still no job created in the cases.

Is there something wrong with my statement?

* * * * * cd /www/i/infoware/crm/htdocs; php -f cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1

Also I don't have Shell access to my webhost.

[nabilbloggs]

Hmmm, having the same problem. I receive a message when I click scheduler that tells me:
Add this line to your crontab:
* * * * * cd /srv/www/htdocs/sugar; php -f cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1

SO, I opened crontab in a text editor and added
* * * * * root cd /srv/www/htdocs/sugar; php -f cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1
I added the user name when it didn't work without it and some other post recommended it.

The whole crontab file looks like this
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/lib/news/bin
MAILTO=root
#
# check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly, and cron.monthly
#
-*/15 * * * * root test -x /usr/lib/cron/run-crons && /usr/lib/cron/run-crons >/dev/null 2>&1
* * * * * root cd /srv/www/htdocs/sugar; php -f cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1

New install on new box
SUSE 10.1
Sugar 4.2.0d
Apache 2.2
PHP 5

Any help much appreciated

Thanks

[jeg1972]

Type:

#crontab -l

And post here what you see...

[nabilbloggs]

no crontab for root

Not good I presume....

There is a crontab script in /etc and roo it owner. Do you know how I can correct this?

Tks

[jeg1972]

As I said earlier up the thread, try this:

Create a new file containing the following and save it as 'my_crontab_filename' in /etc/:

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=myemail@world.com
HOME=/

# run-parts
*/1 * * * * cd /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/live_crm; /usr/local/bin/php -f cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1

Then type:

# crontab my_crontab_filename

and then

#crontab -l

should show the full new crontab entry... your permissions and user have to right for this to run of course.

John