Are Cron jobs automated?

GoWilkes

• January 19, 2016 22:33

OK, this was weird. I've been working on this script for a new account, but it's not live yet. The main script is located at: /home/username/www/cron/ I moved the account to a new server on Saturday, Jan 16, and haven't touched it since. I haven't set the cron up yet; I plan to, but just haven't done it yet. I just now logged in to work on it, and found in the error log that the script last ran this morning (Jan 19) at 9:35am! There was no one even in the office with access to it at that time! I'm at a loss, because the only way it should run is if I had logged in and manually ran it... which I didn't. My only other thought, is there something automated in cPanel that says to run any PHP script located in a /cron/ directory on a certain schedule? I looked at "Configuration cPanel Cron Jobs" in WHM and didn't see anything like that, but it's really the only explanation I can think of.

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  cPanelMichael

  • January 20, 2016 13:01

  Hello :) Cron activity is logged to: /var/log/cron Is the cron job configured on the server you transferred the account from? Thank you.

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  GoWilkes

  • January 20, 2016 23:41

  That's the thing, though; I never configured the cron on either server! I don't have a domain name for it, so the only way it could have been accessed by browser is if someone typed in a pretty random looking address:

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