Unable to create a new Scheduled Cron Jobs on Virtualmin - Please help

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SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
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Webmin version: 1.984
Virtualmin version: 6.17-3
Related products version: DigitalOcean Droplet (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS)

Hello.

Unable to run a CronJob in Webmin when I try to create a new CronJob with the command * * * * * /usr/sbin/php-fpm7.4 /home/mydomain/domains/erp.mydomain.com/public_html/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1, I get an error return:

Error

### Failed to save cron job : An error was detected in the new Cron configuration :

no crontab for host - using an empty one crontab: installing new crontab "/tmp/crontab.zNNmLh/crontab":0: bad command errors in crontab file, can't install. Do you want to retry the same edit? (y/n) crontab: edits left in /tmp/crontab.zNNmLh/crontab

@hourly * * * * * /usr/sbin/php-fpm7.4 /home/mydomain/domains/erp.mydomain.com/public_html/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

So, how to successfully create a Cron Task without having such an error ???
Thank you.

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Hmm…how’d you get both @hourly and * * * * * in there? It should be one or the other, not both. I’m surprised Webmin let it happen. Can you show us what the input form looks like for this job?

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So where did we misconfigured that we couldn’t create this new cron job ???

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Exactly where I said you did. The schedule is specified in the UI, you can’t also include it in the Command field.

Get rid of the * * * * *. The schedule is defined in the When to execute section.

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It works. Thanks

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