Magento – Ubuntu cron running but nothing happening in Magento

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I have set up the Cron on my Ubuntu server and it is running every 5 minutes, everything ran fine for about a week, but now the cron still runs (it appears in the logs) but according to Magento the last cron was ages ago! There are no errors in the cron logs.

I missed a few sales from eBay because of this.

Any ideas of how to get Magento run cron again or to debug it?

EDIT: Similar question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10499471/m2e-cron-jobs-not-automatically-running-in-magento.
Maybe it is just the M2E extension not running in the cron.

EDIT 2: There is no cron.lock file, and the cron_shedule table is empty…

Best Answer

Try using this extension (free) http://www.fabrizio-branca.de/magento-cron-scheduler.html it logs and details the Magento cron tasks & should give you a better idea of what is happening.