WHich user for Cron task ?

[sebastienserre]

Hello,
I've set a cron task from the app (Dolibarr) panel:

I assume this task is run as root? (or not www-data user)
Am I right ?

If I need to change the user, do you suggest to edit the crontab from the web terminal ?
crontab -e ?

Thanks

[james]

Hello @sebastienserre
By default, the @dolibarr app executes:

*/15 * * * * /usr/bin/php /app/pkg/cron_run_jobs_custom.php

Is your cron job something that really needs to be configured like this?

[sebastienserre]

Hello @james
I have an recurrent invoice created each 28th of the month and yesterday, it has not been created (first 28th after migrating to Cloudron).
So I thought the Cron task was not run.
i've added it on the Cron tab from the panel but the pdf generated by Dolibarr was owned by root user.

[joseph]

@sebastienserre yes, cron commands are run as root. To run as a specific user, use sudo or gosu .

gosu www-data:www-data /usr/bin/php /app/code/protected/yii cron/run

OR

sudo -E -u www-data php /app/code/upload/api/cron.php