Here’s what I did, and it seems to work in this situation. At least, it shows me an error, whereas running from the command line as the user doesn’t show the error. Step 1: I put this line temporarily in the user’s crontab: * * * * * /usr/bin/env > /home/username/tmp/cron-env then took it out … Read more
For the distributions you mention: On CentOS 5.4 (Should be same for RHEL5) grep run-parts /etc/crontab 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly So cron.daily runs at 04:02am. Same on … Read more
How to fix all of your crontab related woes/problems (Linux) This is a community wiki, if you notice anything incorrect with this answer or have additional information then please edit it. First, basic terminology: cron(8) is the daemon that executes scheduled commands. crontab(1) is the program used to modify user crontab(5) files. crontab(5) is a … Read more
you could use something like this, WP Crontrol to see what those events might be and when they are scheduled to run ( interval ), but the time of the day ( when they run ) is controlled by visitors viewing your site ( which is why they run during the day, because that when … Read more
You’re looking for wp_schedule_event which hooks into the WordPress cron. Cron’s job is to run tasks periodically from the back end.
If you need it on the first day of the month, you should still run this daily. Just be sure to check if “today” is the first of the month. Even your “first day of the year” would be executed if it is the first day of the month. You can check this with the … Read more
The solution is as @Tom J Nowell mentioned to launch WP Cron via crontab (and disable it on user visits).
Question: Will each instance try to run the same job Yes! If you have 5 machines running the same site, they’ll all try to run the cron job. It’ll be inconsistent, but if machine 1 triggers WP Cron and there’s an event ready to run, and machine 2 triggers WP Cron, then machine 2 will … Read more
WP CLI to the rescue! Instead of using php and trying to figure out the rest, install it on the server and just have your cron execute wp cron event run –due-now –path=/home/mysite_staging/www/example.com/
I can’t schedule (I don’t know how I should do it) separately CRON jobs because I had a few situations when some function was run before I have necessary data The key to doing this is scheduling the first job to run daily at the required time, and have that event create all of the … Read more