Empty email sent by freepbx-cron-scheduler.php

General Help
1

FreePBX 2.9.0rc1.4
Asterisk 1.4.21.2
Ubuntu 4.3.2-1ubuntu11
Linux version 2.6.27-8-eeepc

Checking syslog and I can see emails being sent every hour by
/var/lib/asterisk/bin/freepbx-cron-scheduler.php

Emails from=asterisk@my-domain-name to=asterisk@my-domain-name
where my-domain-name is valid.

The emails just contain ascii LF character (\nl)

Running from the command line also shows line feed and no error/output.

These messages started when I upgraded from Freepbx 2.7 (which had some issues - see http://www.freepbx.org/comment/reply/12792 ).

Any suggestions :slight_smile:

2

There is only one cron job.
To overcome this problem temporarily, I set the cron job to

/var/lib/asterisk/bin/freepbx-cron-scheduler.php >>/dev/null

Will this have any negative effect?

Thanks.
Mike

3

When updrading my system is found that there was two cron jobs for /var/lib/asterisk/bin/freepbx-cron-scheduler.php

Disable the one of them and the emails stopped.

4

Hello David,
as I mentioned, there is only one cron job in my list (shown via webmin).
All I have done via webmin is change the command to output to /dev/null so the command is still running every hour.
This has solved my problem of blank emails - but has it created any other problems?

5

The one cron job is required. Turning is off in the short term should be too bad. In the long not to good.

Every time i upgrade from 2.8 to 2.9 a second cron is created by the upgrade. I use webmin to cancel the second job . (centos 5.5)

This cron job runs every hour and starting a second one with in the hour seems to cause the email.

Should raise / check for a ticket for this.

Sorry that i can not offer any further suggestions

6

Went in and changed

/var/lib/asterisk/bin/freepbx-cron-scheduler.php

from

if ($email) {

    $text="";

to

if ($email) {

    $text="\n";

This did not fix the problem - so I switched back to original $text=""; for safety.

7

Well generically speaking adding >/dev/null 2>&1 will not stop the cronjob doing it’s thing.
It’d be safer to just put >/dev/null for a start though.

That way you will still get an email generated if there is an error.

Seems to me that it’s only burying/hiding some bug or mis-configuration

8

also wondering about this.
I have a problem similar to the OP- I get emails from the freepbx-cron-scheduler job saying “got event fullybooted”. These seem purely informational so I would like to disable them by adding >dev/null 2>&1 but I don’t want to harm anything in the process. is this a safe modification to make?

9

The following file is the culprit.

WEBDIRECTORY/admin/modules/hotelwakeup/functions.inc.php

Edit this file and at the very end after the ?> there is a blank line. Simply delete the blank line so that at the end of this file there is just a ?> with nothing after it and problem solved.

10

Anyone know if this is still an issue as of FreePBX 2.9 ? I’m still using v2.8 myself

11

At least I think that is the latest and yes it was an issue still.

But like in my previous post it is easy to fix.

12

I uninstalled hotelwakeup and still receive the blank cron /var/lib/asterisk/bin/freepbx-cron-scheduler.php emails. I receive one from root & one from asterisk. Any ideas on what’s causing this?

13

Anyone have an idea on this issue with 2.11 ?