Cron Not Working/SMTP Not working

Self-Hosted | v5
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Hi!
I installed Invoice Ninja a few hours ago and I setup the cron with this line(ran by user www-data):
* * * * * cd /var/www/kian/invoiceninja && /usr/bin/php -d register_argc_argv=On artisan queue:work --stop-when-empty

This doesnt seem to work, does anyone have an ideas on what I can do to fix this?

Also my SMTP doesnt seem to be working either. I have set it up on the .env and ran php artisan optimize after. There was no errors, so I sent a password reset request as a test but it hasnt arrived. The SMTP server works fine as I use it on other sites also.

Thanks,
Kian

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Hi,

If you have SSH access to the server you can run the command from the CLI to check for any errors.

Have you seen the info here:

https://invoiceninja.github.io/docs/self-host-troubleshooting/#email-not-sending

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Hi!
Ive checked on there and my .env looks ok. I sent an email and it still doesnt work. There are no errors in the laravel log, or it just hasnt updated, im not sure. The SMTP server works fine as I just tested it. Is there a way to force the log to update?

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Also,
If i run cd /var/www/kian/invoiceninja && /usr/bin/php -d register_argc_argv=On artisan queue:work --stop-when-empty I dont get any errors in the console but when I go onto InvoiceNinja and click on the Error symbol it says “The Crons need to be enabled” and when I click refresh data it doesnt do anything. Do i need multiple crons or something as the instructions make it sound like you only need one of the crons on there.

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I get this If i run another cron command:

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@david do you have any thoughts?

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So as long as you have

the schedule:run configured in the cron you should be fine.

We used to run a special check every 5 minutes for the cron, but this was having issues on some systems so we moved this to a daily check. (+0 UTC)

I would wait a day or so and then come back to it.

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Hi!
If i have: * * * * * cd /var/www/kian/invoiceninja && php artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

Should this work? And is this all i need? Also, does this cron affect when emails are sent, etc?

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@kiansniper

The scheduler performs routine tasks: ie Reminders / Recurring Invoices / Updating Currencies.

It is completely separate from the queue system which sends emails. By default we have the queue set to sync - however if you wish to use database queue’s you would also need to configure some way to execute php artisan queue:work

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Thanks for this :slight_smile: . Is the cron above correct and should it work?

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@kiansniper

It should work, however we see some variability between platforms.

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hi!
Just went on the site and no more error. Guess i just had to wait :smiley:. Also, will emails send automatically, etc? or do i need another cron?