Running fwconsole reload from cronjob

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Freepbx version 16.

I am running fwconsole with a cronjob to apply config after midnight and it was working for a while. Recently we noticed its not working.
In cron logs I can see this:
22:24:01 XXXXXX-pri CROND[31688]: (root) CMD (fwconsole reload #Apply Config Nightly ) but the red apply config does not go away.

running fwconsole reload manually works.
Any idea why this is happening?

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possibly some config changes happened after your “reload” Or may be “reload” got failed.

You can check freepbx logs during your cron time to see if you find anything.

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No config change for sure because I am trying to see why this is not working and I am ruing cronjob( changing time to see it is running the command for sure ) and I am not changing configuration. I am checking cron logs.
I will check freepbx logs to see what’s going on and this is happening on two server. Thank you!

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This is the error message I have in freepbx log when command is running from cronjob , but running fwconsole reload from CLI , I dont get any error message

[2024-08-06 23:51:01] [freepbx.INFO]: [NOTIFICATION]-[freepbx]-[RCONFFAIL] - ‘fwconsole reload’ failed, config not applied (The command “runuser ‘asterisk’ -s ‘/bin/bash’ -c ‘cd /var/www/html/admin/modules/pm2/node && mkdir -p /home/asterisk/.pm2 && mkdir -p /var/www/html/admin/modules/pm2/node/logs && export HOME=/home/asterisk && export PM2_HOME=/home/asterisk/.pm2 && export ASTLOGDIR=/var/log/asterisk && export ASTVARLIBDIR=/var/lib/asterisk && export PATH=$HOME/.node/bin:$PATH && export NODE_PATH=$HOME/.node/lib/node_modules:$NODE_PATH && export MANPATH=$HOME/.node/share/man:$MANPATH && /var/www/html/admin/modules/pm2/node/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 jlist’” failed. Exit Code: 127(Command not found) Working directory: /root Output: ================ Error Output: ================ sh: runuser: command not found )

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man runuser

for the reason, runuser is not in the $PATH of the asterisk user and even if it where, /usr/sbin/runuser can only be run by the root user

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Do mean this is happening because we are running this command by asterisk user? But cronjob is running fwconsole as root

(root) CMD (fwconsole reload #Apply Config Nightly )

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Output: ================ Error Output: ================ sh: runuser: command not found )

sh
which runuser
echo $PATH
runuser
exit
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Thank you for your reply, this is what I have :slight_smile:
which runuser
/usr/sbin/runuser
[root@xxxx-pri ~]# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin

I updated my cronjob and I am using sudo cronjob -e to create this cron job and now, I dont have fail message in freepbx.log. Yet, apply is not done.

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin
21 10 * * * root /usr/sbin/fwconsole reload #Apply Config Nightly
~

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I updated /etc/crontab
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

29 11 * * * root /usr/sbin/fwconsole reload #Apply Config Nightly

~
And this one is working. crontab -e was not working. Thanks for everyone trying to help :slight_smile:

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crontab -e should not have a user , you should add the -u user to crontab -e to make sure your editing the correct crontab

crontab -h
crontab -u asterisk -e # for asterisk user
crontab -u root -e # for root user
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