Cron currency updates - please, anyone, this is ridiculous

[bdamage]

I posted earlier regarding CRON running every day but not updating any currencies, despite the back end being set up correctly and it updating fine when i use it to do it manually.

Let me turn it round - can anyone confirm this works for them please?

Details: https://community.magento.com/t5/Admin-Configuration-Questions/cron-runs-OK-but-doesn-t-update-curre...

[bdamage · Accepted solution]

This is fixed in 2.2.0 - yay!

You need to upgrade, and be sure to follow the instructions for CRON here:http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.2/config-guide/cli/config-cli-subcommands-cron.html#logging

In particular, make sure you surround the entries in the system cron file with the #~ MAGENTO START/END tags as shown there. Nice job guys - it runs well now.