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I\u2019ve noticed that on some new installs of cPanel 11.x + CentOS 5.0 there is a problem with cron jobs where the crons are not saved at all with no apparent reason and with no errors.
\nAfter some investigations I\u2019ve found out that this is do to the fact that crontab doesn\u2019t have the correct permissions.
\nIt\u2019s an easy fix and all you have to run as root is:<\/p>\n

chmod a+s \/usr\/bin\/crontab<\/p>\n

Now try to add your crons again. It should work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve noticed that on some new installs of cPanel 11.x + CentOS 5.0 there is a problem with cron jobs where the crons are not saved at all with no apparent reason and with no errors. After some investigations I\u2019ve found out that this is do to the fact that crontab doesn\u2019t have the correct… <\/p>\n

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