Our ecommerce team was having trouble with Magento cron jobs, so we researched the various mechanisms to test and debug them. The jobs did not run at the expected time and we couldn’t see why.
The Magento cron jobs run as apache. You can see them by typing:
crontab -u apache -l
You can edit them with
crontab -u apache –e
To see if they are running without errors:
tail /var/log/cron
Also, the results of cron jobs are emailed to your apache user. You can check that account with:
mail -u myApacheAccount
If you have problems with the cron job permissions, you will see them in the cron log or the mail messages.
References
http://www.adminschoice.com/crontab-quick-reference/
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