I am getting used to NS8 container but am having trouble understanding what I need to do to get a cron job to run a php script regularly. I can see my site in the user home. I have also found it with run agent on that user then podman for php where php is live but no cron in there. I don’t want to h…

I worked it out. It came down to a hypothetical example I gave years ago that came true. I generally use nano for small text edits. Somehow, the hyphens in the cronjob were unicode – (en dash, U+2013)… yeah. Not an ascii or even UTF-8 “-” and nano doesn’t indicate unicode. I was against unicode in p…

It’s explained here: [image] Cron inside any containers Development I hope I am not destroying an opened port but with the migration of my server I found a funny way to make acron inside a container. Initially it was with webserver to make a rsync of remote mi…

Thank you, I read that before posting. crontab -e is not available, though I may be invoking it incorrectly. At the top level of the system, I can use crontab -e. I put the following in (with “ root “ after the “*****”) but no joy. I put this into a file in cron.d: ***** /usr/local/bin/runagent -m …

[image] psionprime1: crontab -e is not available Do you get an error? Here it’s available as root and as webserver1 user. [image] psionprime1: I put the following in (with “ root “ after the “*****”) but no joy. I put this into a file in cron.d: Here it works as root but there’s no ne…

I appreciate the assistance. I need to get all the information you requested. On the update it was through the web admin software center. It had a notice core needed to be updated so I did. I was only able sign on to it locally (I did through VPN). After several reboots I was able to access it remot…

How do I get cron working inside a web server container?

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mrmarkuz (Markus Neuberger) December 4, 2025, 7:51am 2

It’s explained here: