CRON Shared Hosting

[GrokWhy]

I'm setting up EspoCRM in a client's shared host IDCSoft. For the most part, things are working.

On CRON IDCSoft said it can't be run directly, and they put it in a wrapper

So from this

* * * * * cd /home/lookahead/www/www; /usr/local/php74/bin/php -f cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1

to this

#!/bin/bash
cd /home/lookahead/www/www; /usr/local/php74/bin/php -f cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1

In the CLI, if I go to www/www and run
/usr/local/php74/bin/php -f cron.php
the prompt is returned in about 1 second

Looking at the jobs screen, it appears to have run. But emails are not being retrieved. (Pending)

I can send emails, and on the private email box, Test Connection reports Connection OK.

Using webmail, I can see messages in the box.

No log or errors for today in /data/logs

Thoughts as to what to try next?

Thanks,
Russ

[tarasm]

All scheduled jobs are adding to a queue every time when cron runs. When your cron runs not often (e.g. every 15th minutes) all the jobs cannot be executed.
Try to configure your cron to run every minute.

[GrokWhy]

Tarasm.

I think you are on the right track with this. I removed what I hope were unnecessary jobs and ran cron manually and the emails came in.

Because this is shared hosting, I'm limited to once every 15 minutes on cron.

I nice feature on the email screen would be a send/receive button to overcome hosts where cron is limited.

Thanks!
Russ