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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?

Hello quatroweb,

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

Regards,

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?

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".

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 ?

Try to use this command in vestacp cron

Worked like a charm!! Thanks a lot..

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

You should use system crontab for this

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 !!!