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Asked: 2026-05-15T08:30:21+00:00

When I execute a rake task manually, it works fine but when I put

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When I execute a rake task manually, it works fine but when I put the same command in Cron nothing happens:

cd /path/to/my/rails/app && rake daily_import

The Cron log indicates that the command was issues:

CMD (cd /path/to/my/rails/app && rake daily_import)

The rake task logs error and success messages, but nothing is recorded to the log, nothing is done at all. However if I copy and paste the text of the CMD with the same user Cron is running the command in everything works fine.

I’m assuming that running a task in Cron should be the same as typing it in myself, is this correct?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Look for mail that the cron daemon might have sent to the user under which the cron job is running. If a cron job produces output on stderr or stdout, the cron daemon will email that to the owner of the cron job. If something is going wrong (possibly because of a PATH issue, like Rob suggests above), you might see a helpful error message in an email from the cron daemon.

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