27 October 2009, 19:38

Hi all,

I've just realised that my RRS-Feed doesn't update. Taking a look at the logfiles shows that  the cronjob didn't get run because the nextrun time was too old.

What does that mean? How can I fix it? (Beware of the newbie)

Here is the mentioned part of the logfile:

[Wed Oct 28 01:21:29 2009] [error] [client 83.171.145.62] [WAR] 8e (lib/cron.php:120) cronjob "externalfeed.refresh_feeds" didn't get run because the nextrun time was too old
[Wed Oct 28 01:21:29 2009] [error] [client 83.171.145.62] Call stack (most recent first):
[Wed Oct 28 01:21:29 2009] [error] [client 83.171.145.62]   * log_message("cronjob "externalfeed.refresh_feeds" didn't get ru...", 8, true, true) at /var/www/lib/errors.php:90
[Wed Oct 28 01:21:29 2009] [error] [client 83.171.145.62]   * log_warn("cronjob "externalfeed.refresh_feeds" didn't get ru...") at /var/www/lib/cron.php:120
[Wed Oct 28 01:21:29 2009] [error] [client 83.171.145.62]
[Wed Oct 28 01:21:29 2009] [error] [client 83.171.145.62] [WAR] 8e (lib/cron.php:120) cronjob "forum.interaction_forum_new_post" didn't get run because the nextrun time was too old
[Wed Oct 28 01:21:29 2009] [error] [client 83.171.145.62] Call stack (most recent first):
[Wed Oct 28 01:21:29 2009] [error] [client 83.171.145.62]   * log_message("cronjob "forum.interaction_forum_new_post" didn't ...", 8, true, true) at /var/www/lib/errors.php:90
[Wed Oct 28 01:21:29 2009] [error] [client 83.171.145.62]   * log_warn("cronjob "forum.interaction_forum_new_post" didn't ...") at /var/www/lib/cron.php:120
[Wed Oct 28 01:21:29 2009] [error] [client 83.171.145.62]
[Wed Oct 28 01:21:29 2009] [error] [client 83.171.145.62] [WAR] 8e (lib/cron.php:161) core cronjob "rebuild_artefact_parent_cache_dirty" didn't get run because the nextrun time was too old
[Wed Oct 28 01:21:29 2009] [error] [client 83.171.145.62] Call stack (most recent first):
[Wed Oct 28 01:21:29 2009] [error] [client 83.171.145.62]   * log_message("core cronjob "rebuild_artefact_parent_cache_dirty"...", 8, true, true) at /var/www/lib/errors.php:90
[Wed Oct 28 01:21:29 2009] [error] [client 83.171.145.62]   * log_warn("core cronjob "rebuild_artefact_parent_cache_dirty"...") at /var/www/lib/cron.php:161
[Wed Oct 28 01:21:29 2009] [error] [client 83.171.145.62]
[Wed Oct 28 01:21:29 2009] [error] [client 83.171.145.62] [WAR] 8e (lib/cron.php:161) core cronjob "activity_process_queue" didn't get run because the nextrun time was too old
[Wed Oct 28 01:21:29 2009] [error] [client 83.171.145.62] Call stack (most recent first):
[Wed Oct 28 01:21:29 2009] [error] [client 83.171.145.62]   * log_message("core cronjob "activity_process_queue" didn't get r...", 8, true, true) at /var/www/lib/errors.php:90
[Wed Oct 28 01:21:29 2009] [error] [client 83.171.145.62]   * log_warn("core cronjob "activity_process_queue" didn't get r...") at /var/www/lib/cron.php:161
[Wed Oct 28 01:21:29 2009] [error] [client 83.171.145.62]
[Wed Oct 28 01:21:29 2009] [error] [client 83.171.145.62] [WAR] 8e (lib/cron.php:161) core cronjob "import_process_queue" didn't get run because the nextrun time was too old
[Wed Oct 28 01:21:29 2009] [error] [client 83.171.145.62] Call stack (most recent first):
[Wed Oct 28 01:21:29 2009] [error] [client 83.171.145.62]   * log_message("core cronjob "import_process_queue" didn't get run...", 8, true, true) at /var/www/lib/errors.php:90
[Wed Oct 28 01:21:29 2009] [error] [client 83.171.145.62]   * log_warn("core cronjob "import_process_queue" didn't get run...") at /var/www/lib/cron.php:161
[Wed Oct 28 01:21:29 2009] [error] [client 83.171.145.62]
[Wed Oct 28 01:21:32 2009] [error] [client 83.171.145.62] [DBG] ff (lib/cron.php:64) ---------- cron running Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:21:32 +0100 ----------

Thanks

27 October 2009, 20:44

Hi,

How often have you scheduled the cron job to run? If you are making it run every minute, then I would ignore that error, as you should never see it again.

That message appears if it's been more than five minutes since cron was last ran. 

29 October 2009, 12:01

Hi Nigel,

now it runs every minute: * * * * * php /var/www/lib/cron.php >>/var/www/cron_new.log 2>&1

before, it simply did not run because the php command did not work (php: command not found). I've fixed this by installing php5-cli ... nc please ;)