The cron jobs are not running

Products

• CA Identity Manager
• CA Identity Governance
• CA Identity Portal

Issue/Introduction

When setting an alias as a cronjob it is not running.

Environment

Virtual Appliance 14.x

Cause

The user running the cron is not aware of the aliases set.

Resolution

You need to find the exact command used (under user config run the 'alias' command it will give you the command behind each alias.

Use this command instead of the alias.

For example:

59 23 * * *  sudo systemctl restart wildfly-ig

This cron  entry will restart IG every day at 11:59 PM

Note that no single quotes are used for the command itself.