Magneto Newsletter mails are not going - magento

I am having Magento 1.9.3 and i am new to Magento.
My newsletter subscription is not working. I have checked all things in magento configuration. Seems its the trouble with cron on server. But with out knowing i do not want to make changes on server. I am using A2 hosting provider, and there is a cron set like this, which runs for every 30 mins.
/bin/cagefs_enter.proxied php /home/lasakico/public_html/cron.php 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null
I am not sure what is the problem, either its the problem with cron or magento.
I have checked magento configuration->Advanced->System->Cron, where values are stored for Generate Schedules Every : 15. and rest are like 20, 15, 10, 60,600
Please let me know if anything is not clear in the question. I will ans them.


Magento has a script called cron.php which handles all of the timed jobs that your Magento store has to do. In this list is the task of sending out newsletters. You have to set up your server crontab to run this cron.php script at regular intervals (eg 5 minutes).
Once you do this, you should find that your newsletter will be sent out as expected
Open up an SSH session with your server. (If you can’t do this you
are going to have to ask your hosts to do this for you instead).
Browse to the document root of your magento store, the folder with
cron.php in there
enter the command
pwd This command gives you the current full path. Write this down
somewhere
enter the command
which php
This command gives you the path to your PHP binary. Write this down somewhere
enter the command
crontab -e
This opens up your crontab editor which is the system for scheduling
tasks on Linux
hit the [i] key to go into insert mode on the crontab editor (vi
basically)
on a new line paste the following, but replacing the paths with the
paths you got before
*/5 * * * * /path/to/php -f /path/to/cron.php
Hit [esc] then type the command
:wq
This saves the crontab or cntrl + x and Y
Create a newsletter and schedule it to send in 2 minutes time.

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in server cmd
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in open window
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Thanks for your help!

my guess is that your cron.sh is not executable and that's why nothing is happening.
Please check the file persmission and add the executable flag
chmod +x /home/fpl/webapps/magento/cron.sh
You might also want to check your server's log files for cron (e.g. https://askubuntu.com/questions/56683/where-is-the-cron-crontab-log)
Instead of relying on the fact that cron is executable you could also run it like this
/bin/bash /home/fpl/webapps/magento/cron.sh
And: instead of writing down the minutes like that you should be using this:
*/5 * * * * /bin/bash /home/fpl/webapps/magento/cron.sh

Did you check the status for crontab?
service crond status // depends on your OS
If its not running, start it
service crond start
And configure for system startup
chkconfig crond on
HTH
Good luck!

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