Hourly emails from Cron <asterisk@server>

Beta Program Issues
1

Since installing 2.3beta2 I have been getting hourly emails from:

Cron asterisk@server /var/lib/asterisk/bin/freepbx-cron-scheduler.php

The contents of the email:

[code:1]Module Version Status

announcement 0.8.4 Enabled and up to date
asterisk-cli 1.0 Enabled and up to date
asteriskinfo 0.2.0 Enabled and up to date
backup 2.1.4.2 Enabled and up to date
blacklist Not Installed (Available online: 1.1.3)
callback Not Installed (Available online: 1.4.2.1)
callforward 1.1.1 Enabled and up to date
callwaiting 1.1.2 Enabled and up to date
cidlookup Not Installed (Available online: 1.2.1)
conferences Not Installed (Available online: 1.2.1)
configedit 1.0 Enabled; Not available online
core 2.3.0beta2.0 Online upgrade available (2.3.0beta2.1)
customerdb Not Installed (Available online: 1.2.3)
dashboard 0.2.4 Online upgrade available (0.2.5)
daynight Not Installed (Available online: 1.0.2)
dictate Not Installed (Available online: 1.1.2)
disa 2.2.1 Newer than online version (2.2)
donotdisturb 1.0.2 Enabled and up to date
featurecodeadmin 1.0.5.1 Enabled and up to date
findmefollow Not Installed (Available online: 2.4.12.3)
framework 2.3.0beta2.2 Online upgrade available (2.3.0beta2.3)
gabcast Not Installed (Available online: 1.2.4)
infoservices 1.3.4 Enabled and up to date
inventorydb Not Installed (Available online: 1.0.3)
irc 1.1.1 Enabled and up to date
ivr 2.5.15 Newer than online version (2.5.14.2)
javassh Not Installed (Available online: 1.0.1)
logfiles 1.0.1 Enabled and up to date
manager Not Installed (Available online: 1.3)
miscapps Not Installed (Available online: 0.2.2)
miscdests 1.3.4.1 Enabled and up to date
music 1.5.1.1 Enabled and up to date
paging Not Installed (Available online: 1.6.4)
parking 2.1.2 Enabled and up to date
pbdirectory Not Installed (Available online: 0.3.1)
phonebook Not Installed (Available online: 1.1.5.2)
phpagiconf Not Installed (Available online: 1.2)
phpinfo Not Installed (Available online: 1.0)
pinsets Not Installed (Available online: 1.2)
printextensions Not Installed (Available online: 1.3.1)
queues Not Installed (Available online: 2.2.10.2)
recordings 3.3.4 Enabled and up to date
ringgroups 2.2.15.2 Enabled and up to date
speeddial Not Installed (Available online: 1.0.3)
timeconditions Not Installed (Available online: 2.4.3)
voicemail 2.0.2.2 Enabled and up to date
zoip Not Installed (Available online: 0.2.0)[/code:1]

It looks like the crontab entry for the freepbx_cron_sheduler.php script is not redirecting standard output and cron by default is then emailing it out. As far as I can tell retrieve_conf.php sets up the crontab entry so I am not sure if this output is needed or not.

Can anyone confirm this as a bug or otherwise?

2

there’s a bug logged wrt to the crontab output - but that message should not be happening hourly. It should only check daily for online updates. It seems there may be database corruption for some reason - or some corner case in the code. I’ll have a look later and then may need more info from you.

3

I too am getting hourly emails. The freepbx-cron-scheduler is set to run hourly on the hour but I’ve not dug into exactly what it is doing.

C.

4

yes it runs hourly, but should not be checking for updates hourly, it should only be checking daily - so I’ll have to look closer.

5

since you are running hourly, any change you could try this fix. I think it should only send you an email now if there is an error - I would like to verify that or see if something else is creating output that would create the email. I’d rather allow it to send a cron email on error.

here is the patch for /var/www/html/admin/functions.inc.php. You should make a backup copy, then you should be able to do patch functions.inc.php this_patch_file

[code:1]
Index: functions.inc.php

— functions.inc.php (revision 4529)
+++ functions.inc.php (working copy)
@@ -448,10 +448,17 @@
}
}
// run the job

  •                   system($job['command'],$ret);

  •                   exec($job['command'],$job_out,$ret);
                  if ($ret) {
                          $errors++;
                          $error_arr[] = array($job['command'],$ret);

  •                           // If there where errors, let's print them out in case the script is being debugged or running

  •                           // from cron which will then put the errors out through the cron system.

  •                           //

  •                           foreach ($job_out as $line) {

  •                                   echo $line."\n";

  •                           }
                  } else {
                          $module = $job['module'];
                          $id =     $job['id'];

[/code:1]

6

ok - it was doing every hour, I had just missed it . was a bug. See bug report, will be fixed shortly:

http://freepbx.org/trac/ticket/2150

7

[quote=“p_lindheimer”]ok - it was doing every hour, I had just missed it . was a bug. See bug report, will be fixed shortly:

http://freepbx.org/trac/ticket/2150[/quote]

Cool! So just to be clear, it should check every hour but only report if there is an update/diff right?

Also, without the patch applied I received a spurious:

XML error: mismatched tag at line 291

via email from freepbx-cron-scheduler.php at 00:01 today. Yeah, yeah, should be tucked up in bed…