Cron setup fails: the account's crontab directory is missing
Error recorded 1 times in PanelAlpha Engine deploys. The deploy log below is the recorded failure output.
TypeErrorAn error that occurred in the deployed application. It is not necessarily a PanelAlpha Engine error, but we keep working on improvements so you run into fewer of them.
Seen1 times
StatusFixed (2.1.0)Fixed in PanelAlpha Engine 2.1.0. The error is resolved on our side, so you will not run into it anymore.
Why it happens
While the Engine prepares the account, before the repository is cloned, it writes the web user's crontab into the account's crontabs directory. That directory was never created for the account, so the deploy stops. This is an Engine account-provisioning problem, not a problem in the deployed project.
What the log looks like
Deploy log
touch: cannot touch '/opt/panelalpha/shared-hosting/users/<account>/crontabs/www-data': No such file or directory