The client is setup in full cron. I have the following script, called chg_vacation_msg, which is located in /var/www/clients/client2/web7/autoresponders Code: #!/bin/bash # copy autoresponder msg cp /var/www/clients/client2/web7/autoresponders/test.txt /var/vmail/mailfilters/domainname/testaccount/.vacation.msg If I execute this script under shell, using ./chg_vacation_msg , the file gets copied ok. If I do su web7 and execute the script, the file gets copied ok too. I put the following in the CRON interface in ISPC3 : the log gets created, but is empty, and the file is not copied! syslog contains this line: /USER/SBIN/CRON (WEB7) CMD (/var/www/clients/client2/web7/autoresponders/chg_vacation_msg) but no errors I don't know why it doesn't work.
thanks! do you mean /bin/cp or /var/www/clients/client2/web7/bin/cp ? the latter would be illogical since the client is setup with full cron, and the first doesn't work, I tried it before. anyway, I added the script to /etc/crontab and it works! (that's why a crontab form for admin/root under 'system' would make sense) but I'd still like to know how I could make it work using ISPC
Its simply a permission problem, the user web7 has no permission to copy a file to /var/vmail/mailfilters/domainname/testaccount/ You can not test it like this. If you run su web7, then you remain root user as the web[ID] users dont have a shell that allows to switch with su. Thats why you did not recognize the permission issue.
thanks! is there any way for admin to setup cron jobs running with user "root" in the ISPC interface? This could come handy in some cases, and /etc/crontab can be forgotten if the server gets migrated I'm not knowledgable enough to give web7 permissions for the following directory and subdiretories/files: /var/vmail/mailfilters/domain.ch ...another question is whether the .vacation.msg files should not be located in /var/www/clients/client2/web7 by default, to allow users to change their autoreply messages by script?
> is there any way for admin to setup cron jobs running with user "root" in the ISPC interface? no. Web7 shall not have permissions to these directories. If you would grant web7 access to the mailsystem, then the web7 user would be able to read all messages of all accounts. The message belongs to the mail system and not the webserver. ispconfig is a multiserver system, so yoiu can not assume that a webserver and mailserver are on the same system.
