I have made this Cronjob that should run some tests. My script works, but cronjob won't trigger it.
Cronjob looks like this:
*/1 * * * * /bin/sh cd ~/Desktop/abc.sh
I want it to run every minute, just for testing purposes.
And my script is:
while read LINE; do curl -o /dev/null --silent --head --write-out "%{http_code} $LINE\n" "$LINE"; done < todo | tee test_results.txt
I can't even find the solution on google or youtube.
If you added #!/bin/bash to your script, then your cronjob should look like:
* * * * * ~/Desktop/abc.sh
Or
* * * * * /home/USER/Desktop/abc.sh
In the first case you have to run cronjob from the same user where of the Desktop folder.
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I'm trying to run a node script with crontab. I've tried first doing things like
* * * * * echo test > test.txt
to be sure crontab works (I'm trying to make the command work and then I'll change the crontab to something different so it doesn't run every minute).
The crontab above works. The thing is, when I try to use node, it doesn't run with the crontab. Running which node I get /usr/bin/node Here are the things I've tried.
Thanks!
* * * * * cd /path/to/script && node script.js
* * * * * cd /path/to/project && npm start (runs npx tsc && node build/script.js)
* * * * * cd /path/to/script && node script.js > test.txt (file is generated empty, even though, script has console.log)
* * * * * node /path/to/script/script.js
* * * * * echo test > test.txt && node /path/to/script/script.js (file gets generated)
Also I've tried all of the above replacing node by /usr/bin/node.
If I run any of these commands manually, it executes the program.
After going over a long time and testing a lot of stuff, I realized the issue was doing sudo crontab -e to set the crontab. I fixed it after running instead
sudo crontab -u username -e
I made a script in TypeScript that download data from some api and store inside a mongo DB.
If i run yarn start from the app folder it works well.
I would like to put this command in a cron job that will be executed every 5 minutes.
I try it with some sintax in crontab but ti doesn't work.
I try to put the call in a run.sh script but it doesn't work too.
*/5 * * * * cd /opt/app-folder/src/ && /home/username/.nvm/versions/node/v16.15.1/bin/ts-node main.ts
*/5 * * * * cd /opt/app-folder && /usr/bin/yarn start > /home/username/app-name-out.txt
*/5 * * * * /home/username/run.sh > /home/username/app-name-out.txt
*/5 * * * * /home/username/.nvm/versions/node/v16.15.1/bin/ts-node /opt/app-folder/src/main.ts > /home/username/app-name-out.txt
*/5 * * * * cd /opt/app-folder/src/ && /home/username/.nvm/versions/node/v16.15.1/bin/ts-node main.ts > /home/username/app-name-out.txt
Can someone help me to execute the main.ts every 5 minutes?
Thanks
I get rid of this problem.
There was 2 problems, the first related to the output redirection.
I fixed by redirect stdout in a file and stderr in another one.
The second was related the the $PATH of crontab: it was /usr/bin:/bin.
To fix it I log into my user where script works and I print my $PATH with echo $PATH.
I copied the value and I set it before the crontab line in crontab file.
This is what it looks like:
# Set the same path of user username to have the correct path in script
PATH=/home/username/.nvm/versions/node/v16.15.1/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/snap/bin
# Execute oracle every 5 minutes
*/5 * * * * /bin/sh /home/username/run.sh >> /home/username/app-name-info.txt 2>> /home/username/app-name-error.txt
Now it works.
Hoping someone can help with a crontab issue I am having on the pi.
I have a program, rf24_receiver.py, that resides in the /home/pi directory. When run from terminal, it requires sudo to run. So with this command on terminal,
sudo python3 rf24_receiver.py, the program executes perfectly.
However, I need to run it on a schedule, so I tried the following without success.
crontab -e
*/30 * * * * sudo python3 /home/pi/rf24_receiver.py >> /home/pi/rf24_receiver.py.log 2>&1
Then I tried this
*/30 * * * * python3 /home/pi/rf24_receiver.py >> /home/pi/rf24_receiver.py.log 2>&1
Then I tried this
sudo crontab -e
*/30 * * * * sudo python3 /home/pi/rf24_receiver.py >> /home/pi/rf24_receiver.py.log 2>&1
Then I tried this
*/30 * * * * python3 /home/pi/rf24_receiver.py >> /home/pi/rf24_receiver.py.log 2>&1
No success with any of the above. I hope this is the right place to post this.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you
Sorry to bother the forum with this question. I am not sure why I got this command to work under sudo crontab -e:
*/29 */1 * * * sudo python3 /home/pi/rf24_receiverR3.py >> /home/pi/rf24_receiverR3.py.log 2>&1
I did a reboot and it seemed to work after that.
I have written some PHP scripts that I am trying to run with cron jobs in VestaCP, but they don't seem to be running. I have tried to search for other threads on here and on the VestaCP forum that could help me identify the error, but have not found a solution.
Server system:
CentOs 7.4
Vesta 0.9.8-22
I have tested the PHP scripts by going to the links directly. They all work well. But the cron jobs are not running and I can't figure out why.
I have not been able to locate any error messages or logs generated by these cron jobs (even when I remove the "> /dev/null 2>&1"). But I might have been looking in the wrong places.
All of the cron jobs have been added through the VestaCP cron interface.
I have disabled exim, dovecot, clamd, and spamassassin. And I have turned off notifications in the cron panel. Not sure if that is related.
Copied from /var/spool/cron/admin [edited domain name]:
15 02 * * * sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-update-sys-queue disk
10 00 * * * sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-update-sys-queue traffic
30 03 * * * sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-update-sys-queue webstats
*/5 * * * * sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-update-sys-queue backup
10 05 * * * sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-backup-users
20 00 * * * sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-update-user-stats
*/5 * * * * sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-update-sys-rrd
15 6 * * * sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-update-sys-vesta-all
01 4 * * * sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-update-letsencrypt-ssl
*/5 * * * * wget -q -O - "https://testing.example.com/cli/new-projects" > /dev/null 2>&1
*/5 * * * * wget -q -O - "https://example.com/cli/new-projects" > /dev/null 2>&1
30 10 * * * wget -q -O - "https://example.com/cli/project-expiration" > /dev/null 2>&1
*/5 * * * * sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-update-sys-queue letsencrypt
0 10 * * * wget -q -O - "https://testing.example.com/cli/project-expiration" > /dev/null 2>&1
*/2 * * * * wget -q -O - "https://testing.example.com/cli/email-sender" > /dev/null 2>&1
*/2 * * * * wget -q -O - "https://example.com/cli/email-sender" > /dev/null 2>&1
I had the same problem in Ubuntu.
The problem was that the cron jobs created from VestaCP control panel is created for the user and although there is sudo at the beginning of the command, they are not run.
They seem to be called since I can see them on the /tmp/log/syslog file. It does not show any error though. But for some reason, the commands are not executed.
Here are few simple commands to check cron status.
Check if Cron service is running:
pgrep cron
if a number is returned the service is running else not
Check Cron status:
systemctl status cron
Check the current cron file:
crontab -l
Edit cronjob file:
crontab -e
One solution is to create the cron jobs for the root user from the terminal. I have not tried for other users. The cron jobs created for root user will run without a problem.
In my cron job file I have two cronjobs defined:
#Yo1 MAILTO="example#domain.com"
*1****wget -O - -q "http://example.com/cron/test1.php">/dev/null 2>&1
#Yo1 MAILTO="example#domain.com"
*15****wget -O - -q "http://example.com/cron/test2.php">/dev/null 2>&1
The PHP files are simple just sending mails with different subjects.
The issue is that both cronjobs are running on the same time every minute, but as you can see I want them to run on different times. First - every minute, second - every 15 minutes.
Can you help me with this. I can't figure out whats wrong.
Your syntax is incorrect.
Please use the following code
#every minute
* * * * * wget -O - -q "http://example.com/cron/test1.php">/dev/null 2>&1
#every 15 minutes
*/15 * * * * wget -O - -q "http://example.com/cron/test2.php">/dev/null 2>&1
You can use online crontab generators like http://www.crontab-generator.org/
* * * * * wget -O - -q "http://example.com/cron/test1.php">/dev/null 2>&1
15 * * * * wget -O - -q "http://example.com/cron/test2.php">/dev/null 2>&1