Webcron not showing status anymore - 10.3.0.4

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before the latest version - the webcron always showed a status like “success” etc. now its just an empty array -> [] <- is it working well or a but?
Do you planed to show any status again?
BR Martin

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The cron.php webcron is slowly being deprecated with the latest ownCloud release:
https://doc.owncloud.com/server/admin_manual/release_notes.html#changes-to-background-job-execution
Did you already change your webcron to the new route?
Where do you expect to see the status? In ownCloud or do you have some other webcron interface?

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thanks for your answer.
yes I’M usining http://ssb-handelsagentur.de/index.php/cron instead of cron.php.
Before it always said “success”…now nothing, so I’m not sure if its working or not.
Also before with this status I could add some rules for the different status.

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In which interface did it use to say “success”?
Are you using a webcron interface or do you have it setup in your own server?
I can access the URL you posted and I get HTTP status code 200 which stands for success.

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I have the same issue. Webcron in new format returns empty array. Its just [] where it was [success] before.

What can I do?

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Hi, are you expecting a “Success” message in the ownCloud interface, or somewhere else?
Ok I just had a look at the JSON response on ownCloud 10.2.1 and 10.3.0

This is what it looks like on 10.3.0:

 curl -k https://localhost/index.php/cron
{"data":{"message":"Background jobs are using system cron!"}}

And this is what it looks like on 10.2.1

curl -k https://localhost/cron.php
{"data":{"message":"Backgroundjobs are using system cron!"},"status":"error"}

So for some reason the status isn’t in the response of the version 10.3.0
I will dig a little deeper and try to find out where this change comes from, and why it is necessary (or not).

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in your case you used the system instead of webcron…but result is more or less the same.
Necessary for us - because we checking the status via monitoring. If it’s not “success” I would get an message - that something is wrong.

Looking forward to your response.

BR
Martin

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Same here. We’re filtering success and all other messages will be sent as an eMail.

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Hey,

maybe you can do a posting in https://central.owncloud.org/c/meta explaining why you have chosen the “Server-Apps” category which is about additional apps installed on your ownCloud for a problem with the ownCloud server? I think this could help the ownCloud team to improve the forums category description so that the correct categories are chosen.

For the problem itself i think its better to create a new issue at https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues so that the ownCloud team gets noticed about your problem with this changed behavior.

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