[3.3.x] Support Forum • Periodic tasks have stopped running

phpBB 3.3.13

I have configured periodic tasks to be run via a system cron job every 5 minutes. The two periodic tasks I have are for the mailer in the Digests extension and a daily backup via the Auto Database Backup extension.

Both of these tasks have been sending emails and taking backups successfully for a number of weeks, but I just realised I've received no digests for 4 days and there have been no backups taken since then as well. When I checked the configuration for Auto Database Backups I noticed the due date for the next backup was still set to the day of the last successful backup recorded in the Admin log.

I have looked in the phpBB Admin and Error logs and can find no errors reported. And the last entries for execution of the Digests mailer and Auto Database Backups are consistent with the last digest I received and the last database backup file created in /store.

I've also not seen any errors from the system cron job but I've opened a ticket with my hosting service provider to see if they have access to log files I can't see.

I'm trying to figure out if this is a problem with the system cron job or has phpBB for some reason stopped queuing tasks for the system cron to process. Is there a database table or a file somewhere which contains details of the tasks to be processed by the system cron job?

Thanks in advance for any hints about where I need to look to track down the cause of the problem.

Andy

Statistics: Posted by AndySt — Mon Dec 23, 2024 7:34 pm

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