{"id":639,"date":"2012-07-02T04:26:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T10:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.supportpro.com\/?p=639"},"modified":"2019-10-30T05:48:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T11:48:42","slug":"issue-with-magento-cron-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/issue-with-magento-cron-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue with Magento cron job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are getting the error message Error: cron job (cron.sh) error message: expr: syntax error because the commands included in Magentos cron.sh files are not portable.<\/p>\n<p>To get it work you can change the following line in cron.sh:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>if [ &#8220;$INSTALLDIR&#8221; != &#8220;&#8221; -a &#8220;`expr index $CRONSCRIPT \/`&#8221; != &#8220;1&#8221; ];then<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>to something more portable:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>if [ &#8220;$INSTALLDIR&#8221; != &#8220;&#8221; -a &#8220;`echo $CRONSCRIPT | sed -n &#8216;s\/[\/].*\/\/p&#8217; |<br \/>\nwc -c`&#8221; != &#8220;1&#8221; ];then<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you require help, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/requestquote.php\">contact SupportPRO Server Admin<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><span id=\"hs-cta-wrapper-9d590242-d641-4383-94b4-8cfd62f0af6b\" class=\"hs-cta-wrapper\"><span id=\"hs-cta-9d590242-d641-4383-94b4-8cfd62f0af6b\" class=\"hs-cta-node hs-cta-9d590242-d641-4383-94b4-8cfd62f0af6b\"><!-- [if lte IE 8]><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div id=\"hs-cta-ie-element\"><\/div>\n\n\n<![endif]--><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/freecheckup.php\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"hs-cta-img-9d590242-d641-4383-94b4-8cfd62f0af6b\" class=\"hs-cta-img\" style=\"border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/no-cache.hubspot.com\/cta\/default\/2725694\/9d590242-d641-4383-94b4-8cfd62f0af6b.png\" alt=\"Server not running properly? Get A FREE Server Checkup By Expert Server Admins - $125 Value\" \/><\/a><\/span><script charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/js.hscta.net\/cta\/current.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> hbspt.cta.load(2725694, '9d590242-d641-4383-94b4-8cfd62f0af6b', {}); <\/script><\/span><!-- end HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are getting the error message Error: cron job (cron.sh) error message: expr: syntax error because the commands included in Magentos cron.sh files are not portable. To get it work&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4453,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/4453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}