Cronjob doesn't run - but why?

[Peronia]

Hi,

I have Firefly v 6.2.20 installed. All seems to be ok, but the cronjob isn't running. This is what I tried:

• I put */30 * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/firefly/artisan firefly-iii:cron in the crontab (tried root and www-data)
• Then I changed the root crontab to 35 * * * * curl https://<HOSTNAME>/api/v1/cron/<TOKEN> but this seems not working too

I can se no log messages about successful or failed runs. When I run /usr/bin/php /var/www/firefly/artisan firefly-iii:cron manually as root, all works (also no log entries).
What is going on here?

[JC5]

The entry looks good. Anything relevant in /var/log/cron* logs?

[Peronia]

Oh, good point, don't know of this file. Not really helpful here:

2025-07-06T10:30:01.017861+02:00 <HOST> CRON[143029]: (www-data) CMD (/usr/bin/php /var/www/firefly/artisan firefly-iii:cron)
2025-07-06T10:30:03.385304+02:00 <HOST> CRON[143028]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output)

[JC5]

No, but at least it's trying at 10:30.

Any output in the Firefly III logs? See this for general instructions.

[Peronia]

Okay, I now have this 2 log files:

ff3-cli-2025-07-07.log:

[2025-07-07 12:40:03] production.DEBUG: Now in checkForUpdates()  
[2025-07-07 12:40:03] production.DEBUG: Last check time is 1751367682, current time is 1751884803, difference is 517121  
[2025-07-07 12:40:03] production.DEBUG: Now in FireflyIII\Support\Cronjobs\RecurringCronjob::fire  
[2025-07-07 12:40:03] production.INFO: It has been "12 Std. zuvor" since the recurring transactions cron-job has fired.  
[2025-07-07 12:40:03] production.INFO: The cron-job will not fire now.  
[2025-07-07 12:40:03] production.INFO: It has been 12 Std. zuvor since the auto budget cron-job has fired.  
[2025-07-07 12:40:03] production.INFO: The auto budget cron-job will not fire now.  
[2025-07-07 12:40:03] production.DEBUG: Now in FireflyIII\Support\Cronjobs\BillWarningCronjob::fire  
[2025-07-07 12:40:03] production.INFO: It has been 12 Std. zuvor since the bill notification cron-job has fired.  
[2025-07-07 12:40:03] production.INFO: The cron-job will not fire now.  

and ff3-fpm-fcgi-2025-07-07.log:

[2025-07-07 12:39:43] production.DEBUG: Now in Handler::render()  
[2025-07-07 12:39:43] production.DEBUG: Error "Illuminate\Auth\AuthenticationException" has no Firefly III treatment, parent will handle.  

As far as I see, nothing happens because the last one was before 12h. So I set the cronjob to run only once a day (this should be enought). At least the auto budgets weren't working on begin of this month.

[JC5]

The logs look good indeed. A run once every 24h should be fine.

[Peronia]

Today I tested it again (paused the cron until now). It seems to be fine, all is good in the logs.
I don't know why it is now working. Before I looked at the logs, I saw it from one of the automations sides. There was a yellow banner that the cron don't run for more than 3 days. But this also not disapear when I start it manually. And the new budgets were not created for this month, but a cron was set up.
Strange but solved.