crontab issues

[vineld]

I am used to the control panels web hosting companies and therefore I rarely use crontab close to the source. Now I have no clue as to what I am doing wrong.

 

In /home/DIR/ I have a file called crontab which contains the following:

 

5 * * * * /home/DIR/public_html/_cron/FILE > /dev/null

.... 2 more ....

35 * * * * /home/DIR/public_html/ANOTHER_SITE_DOMAIN/_cron/MY_FILE > /dev/null

 

 

Then, MY_FILE (no file extension) contains the following lines:

 

#!/bin/bash

cd /home/DIR/public_html/ANOTHER_SITE_DOMAIN/_cron/

/usr/local/bin/php /home/DIR/public_html/ANOTHER_SITE_DOMAIN/_cron/blabla.php

 

I have no clue where things are going wrong... When I run the final line via SSH it works just fine.

[vineld]

Oh, and when I run crontab -l it does list all of my cron jobs in the first file.

[trq]

And what exactly is the problem?

[vineld]

Good question, it seems to have something to do with /bin/bash. It is the correct path but it still complains (no such file or directory, bad interpreter). I have chosen the simple solution for now, just adding the cron job directly into crontab. That works but I still would like to know what causes the problems.

[jskywalker]

for testing, remove the '>/dev/null'

and add a line to your crontab file like this:

MAILTO=youremailaddress@somewhere.com

 

Output of your cron-job will be mailed to you, so you know what the problem is.

 

If you still dont know after reading this output, than please post this output here, so readers here KNOW what the problem is, because you still have not mentioned here what your problem is.......