Magento2 – Cron Job Not Running

cronmagento-2.1.8

I have made all the admin settings based on previous post from magento stack exchange. I have created a custom module to send emails and I want to schedule the email based on cron job. I want to know what is missing. If I run manually the cron job runs successfully and email is sent out. How do I make cron job run in the background so email gets sent out in a scheduled time everyday.

My Admin config settings:

My custom code crontab.xml is as below:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:module:Magento_Cron:etc/crontab.xsd">
    <group id="default">
        <job name="Daily_report" instance="Module\Modulename\Cron\sendEmail" method="execute">
            <schedule>*/1 * * * *</schedule>
        </job>
    </group>
</config>

Here is the crontab set-up:

*/1 * * * * www-data php /var/www/html/magento2/bin/magento cron:run | grep -v "Ran jobs by schedule" >> /var/www/html/magento2/var/log/magento.cron.log
*/1 * * * * www-data php /var/www/html/magento2/update/cron.php >> /var/www/html/magento2/var/log/update.cron.log
*/1 * * * * www-data php /var/www/html/magento2/bin/magento setup:cron:run >> /var/www/html/magento2/var/log/setup.cron.log

UPDATE:

I've updated crontab -e as below:

*/1 * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/magento2/bin/magento cron:run | grep -v "Ran jobs by schedule" >> /var/www/magento2/var/log/magento.cron.log
*/1 * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/magento2/update/cron.php >> /var/www/magento2/var/log/update.cron.log
*/1 * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/magento2/bin/magento setup:cron:run >> /var/www/magento2/var/log/setup.cron.log

I can see in /var/log/syslog that the cron is running. Below are the details:

Nov 25 12:52:01  CRON[30803]: (ubuntu) CMD (/usr/bin/php /var/www/magento2/bin/magento setup:cron:run >> /var/www/magento2/var/log/setup.cron.log)
Nov 25 12:52:01  CRON[30800]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output)
Nov 25 12:52:01 CRON[30804]: (ubuntu) CMD (/usr/bin/php /var/www/magento2/update/cron.php >> /var/www/magento2/var/log/update.cron.log)
Nov 25 12:52:01 CRON[30805]: (ubuntu) CMD (/usr/bin/php /var/www/magento2/bin/magento cron:run | grep -v "Ran jobs by schedule" >> /var/www/mage$
Nov 25 12:52:01  CRON[30801]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output)
Nov 25 12:52:02  CRON[30802]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output)

However, none of the cron jobs ran. There is nothing in magento log files.

Could you please help me out? I have hosted my test server in AWS Ubuntu server.

Best Answer

first find php path using below command

which php

whatever results come you need replace with php into cron setup

Also add below cron using ubuntu user : crontab -e add below crontab

* * * * * php /var/www/html/magento2/bin/magento cron:run | grep -v "Ran jobs by schedule" >> /var/www/html/magento2/var/log/magento.cron.log
* * * * * php /var/www/html/magento2/update/cron.php >> /var/www/html/magento2/var/log/update.cron.log
* * * * * php /var/www/html/magento2/bin/magento setup:cron:run >> /var/www/html/magento2/var/log/setup.cron.log

Remove crontab from root user.

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Configuring Cron Jobs for Magento 1.7 on CentOS

The system doesn't know what language the file is, so it's having trouble executing it.

First you need to find where your PHP executable is. To do this use the which command:

# which php
/usr/bin/php

In my case the executable is located at /usr/bin/php so my crontab would look like

15 * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/public_html/cron.php

However, it's recommended that you use the cron.sh that's provided. It has some additional checks so that you don't have multiple process running. You should also have the cron run every minute or job might be missed. Because of Magento's unique cron system, this doesn't necessarily mean it's doing a lot of work, it's just checking the schedule to see if anything should be done at the moment. Try changing your crontab to

* * * * * /bin/bash /var/www/public_html/cron.sh

Magento – Can someone give detailed explanation about scheduling in Magento 2 cron job

This can not be a complete answer to my question about detailed explanation of how Magento's cron schedule works and admin config parameters, but there are few notices:

System cron schedule must be more frequent then magento's cron job schedule. In other case it will skip tasks.
In case of above notice there is no need to include bin/magento cron:run command in system cron twice.
As for magento docs it's recomended to run default magento's cron tasks every minute.
There is also config for cron groups in admin panel in which there is a "Generate Schedules Every" parameter. It affects on cron job launch frequency (job can not launch more frequent than this parameter specifies). What for "Schedule Ahead For" it's a mystery for me for now.

Therefore, for example, if I set system cron to run every minute:

* * * * * /usr/bin/php /srv/www/my_directory/bin/magento cron:run

set up cron job (which is in default group) to run every 5 minutes:

> <group id="default">
>     <job name="my_custom_job" instance="My\Module\Cron\MyCustomJob" method="execute">
>         <schedule>*/5 * * * *</schedule>
>     </job>
> </group>

and in admin config panel leave default values ("Generate Schedules Every" 15 minutes),

than my cron job will run every 15 minutes (as admin config limits).

For more frequent launching I must create custom group with other parameters.

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