CentOS 7 Crontab with success

[muploadrosal]

For other people with centos 7, with difficulty in running cron, i have done this way:

Add the cron lines to etc/crontab
Last line do a enter to enter a blank line
And in the lines i add the root user before path like the example bellow.

0 0 * * * root php /path/to/your/yetishare/admin/tasks/auto_prune.cron.php >> /dev/null 2>&1
0 0 * * * root php /path/to/your/yetishare/admin/tasks/create_internal_notifications.cron.php >> /dev/null 2>&1
0 * * * * root php /path/to/your/yetishare/admin/tasks/delete_redundant_files.cron.php >> /dev/null 2>&1
0 0 * * * root php /path/to/your/yetishare/admin/tasks/downgrade_accounts.cron.php >> /dev/null 2>&1
*/5 * * * * root php /path/to/your/yetishare/admin/tasks/process_file_queue.cron.php >> /dev/null 2>&1
0 1 * * * root php /path/to/your/yetishare/admin/tasks/create_email_notifications.cron.php >> /dev/null 2>&1

And you can check the logs in var/logs/cron

Best Regards

 

[enricodias4654]

You should not run those scripts using the root user.

 

[muploadrosal]

You should not run those scripts using the root user.

Why not?


Best Regards

 

[enricodias4654]

You should not run those scripts using the root user.

Why not?


Best Regards

Because they will run with root permissions. A small mistake in the code when deleting a file could delete something important in your server and a security breach on those files can give someone root access yo your server.

Website scripts should never run using the root user.