topic Cronjob Not Working in Firewall and Security Management

Cronjob Not Working

Kyle_Chickering — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:53:50 GMT

Hey guys,

So, I want to setup a couple cronjobs to run a few bash scripts on my gateways. One being the healthcheck.sh. I then created an export script to take the two files it creates and export it to an FTP server.

Both of my shell scripts can be executed manually but when I try to setup cronjobs, they don't work. I created a user called jobuser to execute these.

[Expert@host]# crontab -u jobuser -l
0 1 1 1-12 * /home/admin/healthcheck.sh
0 2 1 1-12 * /home/admin/healthcheckexport.sh
25 3 * * * /home/admin/healthcheckexport.sh

Here you can see I have two schedules, one to run the healthcheck first then to run the export, then I have a third that I was just testing with live to see why or why it isnt working.

After this I also created a healthjob cron in etc/cron.d and chmod 664 to give it proper permissions.

Referencing How to create a cron job on SecurePlatform OS that runs every minute

[Expert@host]# cd /etc/cron.d/
[Expert@host]# ls -al
total 24
drwx------ 2 admin root 4096 Feb 16 16:55 .
drwxr-xr-x 47 admin root 12288 Feb 13 08:41 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 admin root 51 Feb 16 16:55 healthjob
-rw-r--r-- 1 admin root 188 Jan 31 2008 sysstat
[Expert@host]# cat healthjob
56 16 * * * root /home/admin/healthcheckexport.sh

When I restart the cron service and tail /var/log/cron I get BAD FILE MODE which just means permission issue as far as I know in the unix. I even chmod to 777 for fun and no luck.

Feb 20 10:50:15 2018 host crond[31840]: (*system*) BAD FILE MODE (/etc/cron.d/healthjob)

I also made sure that both my scripts start with !#bin/bash I've also tried adding -f -x but that isn't recognized

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Cronjob Not Working

Kaspars_Zibarts — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 19:45:40 GMT

You can test your user permissions with runuser command. I created a script that can only be executed by admin UID 0 (kasparsz has the same UID)

[Expert@fw1:0]# runuser -l kasparsz /home/kasparsz/test.sh
test

[Expert@fw1:0]# runuser -l testuser /home/kasparsz/test.sh
-bash: /home/kasparsz/test.sh: Permission denied

Make sure that role that you have associated with this new user has rights to execute scheduled jobs

Re: Cronjob Not Working

Kyle_Chickering — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 16:14:45 GMT

Kaspars, I ran chmod 777 on both of the scripts I need to run. Every user has access to them. Is there something I'm missing?https://community.checkpoint.com/people/kaspa0460ae43-b630-4a72-b063-0a8888fa3bb5

[Expert@fw1]# runuser -l jobuser /home/admin/healthcheck.sh
Usage-
clish [-d DebugLevel -i -l ExtLck -s -o OutFmt { -c Cmd | -f File }]
-c Cmd ;Single command to execute.
-d N ;Debug Level in which shell should operate.
-f File ;File to load configuration from.
-i ;Ignore cmd failure in batch and continue.
-l ExtLck ;Use the given lock-id.
-o OutFmt ;Output format (pretty, xml, structured).
-s ;Issue 'save' at the end.

Re: Cronjob Not Working

Kaspars_Zibarts — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:41:48 GMT

This means means your job user has wrong shell set. Change it to bash instead of clish. In user settings.

Re: Cronjob Not Working

Kyle_Chickering — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 19:29:43 GMT

Thank you, that worked when changing the shell to bash for "jobuser" Missed that part.

Re: Cronjob Not Working

PhoneBoy — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 09:17:27 GMT

This is really more of an https://community.checkpoint.com/community/infinity-general/appliances-and-gaia?sr=search&searchId=58156239-8c64-43ab-9c0a-55a55e6fff50&searchIndex=0‌ question

Re: Cronjob Not Working

venkata_marutur — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 23:43:36 GMT

Hello Kyle

Can you please share the export script that you have created?

Thanks.