Crons Dont work

Question

Hi,,
I am trying to run Crons on this Lightsail instance running LAMP,which is not working.

0 12 * * *  wget -q -O- https://crm.slescom.com/cron/index

0 6 * * * /usr/bin/curl -sS https://crm.slescom.com/crmapi/cron.php >/dev/null 2>&1

I want the top crons to run every midnight 12,
and the below to 6 AM Dubai,,

Can someone help me to see what is the issue,

Answer

Hello.

Can you confirm that cron.d is started with the command below?  
```
systemctl status cron
```

Also, can you check cron logs with the command below?

```
journalctl -r -u cron
```

Answer

The commands are failing because **crm.slescom.com** doesn't resolve, and going up a level **slescom.com** isn't registered (a **whois** fails  https://who.is/whois/slescom.com )

```
$ nslookup crm.slescom.com
Server:  dns.google
Address:  8.8.8.8

*** dns.google can't find crm.slescom.com: Non-existent domain
```

Double-check you have the correct URL.

Minor point, but if you want to run the command every day at midnight the **crontab** needs to be `0 0 * * *` and not `0 12 * * *` (this runs it at midday).

Crons Dont work

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