Restart Apache2 each day via CRON ?

[quatroweb]

Anyone knows how I get the Apache2 to restart each day at example 03:00 AM ?

I have already tried to make a CRON job with the following data:

00 03 * * *
sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-restart-web

The Cron Daemon gives me following message:

sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified Sorry, try again.
sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified Sorry, try again.
sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified Sorry, try again.
sudo: 3 incorrect password attempts

Any ideas how I set this up correctly via the cron interface?

[Kyon]

Hello quatroweb,

Try do add this cron in the root crontab and don't use the sudo.

Regards,

[quatroweb]

Hi Kyon and thanks for your answer.

I tried what you mentioned and got following result:

Added the cron job with the root login to vestacp, but without sudo like this: /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-restart-web
And got this respond from Daemon:
/bin/sh: 1: /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-restart-web: Permission denied

After I tried with sudo like: sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-restart-web
And got this respond from Daemon:
/usr/local/vesta/bin/v-restart-web: line 13: /func/main.sh: No such file or directory
/usr/local/vesta/bin/v-restart-web: line 14: /conf/vesta.conf: No such file or directory

It looks like the second time with sudo that it actually got permission, but don't have such directories?

Am I doing something wrong or miss something?

[Kyon]

Hi,

Added the cron job with the root login to vestacp,

Not with vestap but with the linux tool. In command line, as root user, you can type "crontab -e" and add the cron line without sudo but if your second test with sudo work, go to the next point ->, it's just for information :p.

/usr/local/vesta/bin/v-restart-web: line 13: /func/main.sh: No such file or directory
/usr/local/vesta/bin/v-restart-web: line 14: /conf/vesta.conf: No such file or directory

This mean that the environment variable "VESTA" is missing.
Try something like "export VESTA=/usr/local/vesta/;sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-restart-web".

[quatroweb]

This is my cron jobs created by default in VestaCP

15 02 * * * sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-update-sys-queue disk
10 00 * * * sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-update-sys-queue traffic
30 03 * * * sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-update-sys-queue webstats
*/5 * * * * sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-update-sys-queue backup
10 05 * * * sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-backup-users
20 00 * * * sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-update-user-stats
*/5 * * * * sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-update-sys-rrd

Each day I go to Services in VestaCP, but I want the apache2 to restart automatically without have to do it manually.

The question is, how do I add one more cron job in the file /var/spool/cron/admin for restarting the apache each day at 3 AM ?

[imperio]

Try to use this command in vestacp cron

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export VESTA=/usr/local/vesta/;sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-restart-service apache2

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00
03
*
*
*
export VESTA=/usr/local/vesta/;sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-restart-service apache2

[quatroweb]

Worked like a charm!! Thanks a lot..

[quatroweb]

Anyone know how to restart the OS (example: Ubuntu) from cron?

I want to restart the hole Ubuntu 12.04, like you can actually do in Services in VestaCP at the top.

What I have at the moment is only for apache2:

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export VESTA=/usr/local/vesta/;sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-restart-service apache2

Any suggestions, advice's, best practices etc.?

[imperio]

You should use system crontab for this

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/sbin/reboot

[joeygeo]

For 6 years - nobody cared to answer this... so here it is:

sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-restart-system yes

Use above command in cron, and it should work without errors... for some reason, using /sbin/reboot does not work, even though the vesta script v-restart-system is internally using /sbin/reboot !!!