You may want to test if the CRON is running on your server. There is few ways in order to test it. Among those possibilities, this would be an easy one:
Test if cron is running
With SSH access
1) Log to your server using SSH
2) execute the following:
ps ax | grep cron
The output should be similar to the following:
628701 pts/1 S+ 0:00 grep cron
If you have a similar output, awesome! Your CRON is running.
Test if cron is working
Let's add the following entry to your crontab and see if it is executed. To do so:
1) enter the command:
crontab -e
2) append the following to the configuration:
* * * * * /bin/echo "MyCRON" >> ~/crontest.txt
After a minute, a file should be created (crontest.txt) under the specified path (at your home root), holding the "MyCRON" content. If you can see the file, congrats, cron is working fine.
Clean up our test
Now we must silence our test
1) enter the command:
crontab -e
2) remove the following from the configuration:
* * * * * /bin/echo "MyCRON" >> ~/crontest.txt
If you have root access
You can always check the cron log for errors. The usual location for that would be:
/var/log/cron
or
/var/log/messages
/var/log/cron.log or /var/log/messages for errors
Feel free to contact us if further support is needed.
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