Which user for cron tasks ?

ychaouche

• July 28, 2020 07:52

Hello, I was trying to setup a cron task that needs to be run for a drupal website. The usual way to do it (not in a cpanel context) is to create the cron entry in the system user that is running the web server (httpd). In my distribution, the user is 'www-data'. But since this is a cpanel administered server, the php files of the drupal website are in a directory that is owned by web5, not www-data, as it usually is, and is a member of group client1 (if that's relevant) My question is : should I use the command line and add a cronjob for web5 ? or what's the appropriate way to this ?

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  andrew.n

  • July 28, 2020 16:54

  I suggest you to add it through cPanel under Cronjob option so they will be added properly and at the right place.

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  cPanelLauren

  • July 28, 2020 20:59

  Either as @andrew.n suggests or add as the web5 user if you're going to do this through crontab.

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  ychaouche

  • July 30, 2020 09:43

  Thank you guys. How do I mark this as solved ?

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