Cron job not running (to do a trunk-check)

[LesD]

I have a php script to report un-registered trunks.

It runs fine when run on the command line and writes debug lines to a log file.

I have added

*/5 * * * * /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/trunk_check_registered.php

to /var/spool/cron/asterisk and the cron log /var/log/cron shows it being run every 5 minutes

CROND[10285]: (asterisk) CMD (/var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/trunk_check_registered.php 

but it does not actually run.

I cannot find any errors in any log. Nothing is written to the debug log. Simulated trunk errors are not reported.

I have tried adding

> /var/log/debug2.log 2>&1)

at the end of the cron line in the hope there is some output but the file is not created.

The php file is owned by asterisk (and I have tried root) and permissions is set to 0777.

Any suggestions welcome.

[LesD]

I added a MAILTO line and got an error that I had no permission to create a log file in /var/log so I changed that to /tmp and not I get an debug2.log output:

Edit: ‘not’ in the line above should be ‘now’.

/bin/sh: /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/trunk_check_registered.php: /usr/bin/php^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

I don’t understand this.

My php script starts with ‘#!/usr/bin/php’ and file ‘trunk_check_registered.php’ certainly exists in folder ‘/var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin’

[bgroper]

Sorry to suggest the bleeding obvious, BUT …
Did you restart the crond service after changing the cron file ?

[LesD]

I was not aware that was necessary.

In any event the cron entry is logged as having run - except it has not run:frowning_face:

You probably missed my 2nd post which shows that cron is trying to run it but fails - for reasons I don’t understand.

[cynjut (Dave Burgess)]

@LesD

/usr/bin/php^M:

You copied the script from a DOS window.

open the file in ‘vi’ and do the following:

:1,$s/^v^m//g

Those are “control v” and “control m”. The “control v” tells vi that you want the next character to be inserted even if it is a control character. The “control m” will then be used as the “find” string. It will be replaced globally with nothing (deleted).

[LesD]

Thank you!!

Guilty as charged.

Well spotted!

I’m using WinSCP so it was easy enough to change it to Unix format.

Must be more careful in future.

Again many thanks.