# Script in progress - always
**URL:** https://forum.mautic.org/t/script-in-progress-always/3533
**Category:** Product Support
**Created:** [April 16, 2016, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/script-in-progress-always/3533 "2016-04-16T19:02:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@AllanBinder](https://forum.mautic.org/u/AllanBinder)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2016, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/script-in-progress-always/3533/1 "2016-04-16T19:02:53Z")
When I try to run the mautic:campaigns:trigger or the mautic:campaigns:update scripts I get an error:
Script in progress. Use -f or --force to force execution.
It doesn’t matter when or how I try it - the same error every time.
I’ve been able to google my way to some other guys who had the problem - but noone ever posted a solution it seems.
Help would be much appreciated - what could possibly be wrong?
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### Author:  [@AllanBinder](https://forum.mautic.org/u/AllanBinder)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2016, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/script-in-progress-always/3533/2 "2016-04-16T19:02:53Z")
When I try to run the mautic:campaigns:trigger or the mautic:campaigns:update scripts I get an error:
Script in progress. Use -f or --force to force execution.
It doesn’t matter when or how I try it - the same error every time.
I’ve been able to google my way to some other guys who had the problem - but noone ever posted a solution it seems.
Help would be much appreciated - what could possibly be wrong?
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### Author:  [@vln104](https://forum.mautic.org/u/vln104)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2016, 9:14am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/script-in-progress-always/3533/3 "2016-04-17T09:14:32Z")
Hi,
I had this issue once running on a shared host. I found that my issue was that I set the cron jobs to run too frequently, like every 5 mins. This is was initially when there weren’t many events to process but as the amount of work grew, the processing times required got longer. I believe my hosting provider might have some throttling in place so in the end I had to configure the cron jobs to run less frequently, like every half and hour and it was OK.
Hope it helps.
Linh
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### Author:  [@Scalar](https://forum.mautic.org/u/Scalar)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/script-in-progress-always/3533/4 "2016-06-21T15:14:00Z")
The only way around this is by adding --force for me, then the crons run, but I have read that its not good practice to use -f or --force permanently.
I have adjusted my crons to run every 15 mins, staggered, and set a forced version twice per day just incase, as advised on here.
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### Author:  [@dirk\_s](https://forum.mautic.org/u/dirk_s)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 12:36pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/script-in-progress-always/3533/5 "2016-06-21T12:36:45Z")
I currently experience the same with a not too small virtual server. It mainly has only mautic cronjobs. The mautic instance itself is not very big yet. However - I run also into the “script in progress” situation. Usually the script completes within 1 or 2 seconds. So 5 min should not be a problem?
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### Author:  [@jantheofel](https://forum.mautic.org/u/jantheofel)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 1:21pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/script-in-progress-always/3533/6 "2016-06-21T13:21:14Z")
I had this when launching cronjobs parallel. Fix them once using -f and the do just one cronjob which process them one by one. So that might be one shell skript like:
[code]#!/bin/bash
cd whatsoeverpath
php app/console mautic:segments:update 2\>&1
php app/console mautic:campaigns:trigger 2\>&1
php app/console mautic:campaigns:update 2\>&1[/code]