I'm on a raspberry pi, with rasbpian !
I'm trying to install a new crontab for execute an basic script. This one will take a picture from webcam with vlc.
I want to do this every minute but i can't edit my crontab user (crontab -e), only the sudo crontab... Or vlc must do execute without root !
pi#raspberrypi ~ $ crontab -e
crontabs/pi/: fdopen: Permission denied
Every body know how i can do ?
This is my script :
#!/bin/bash
cvlc -I dummy v4l2:///dev/video0 --video-filter scene --no-audio --scene-path $
date > ~/webcam/date.txt
And this is my crontab for root, which not work :
* * * * * sh image.sh
I don't know why you're getting permission denied for crontab -e, but if you use sudo crontab -e -u pi, then you will be able to open the crontab for the pi user with sudo.
Incidentally, you probably need to specify a direct path for image.sh. Otherwise the script won't be able to find it.
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I want to backup some audio files from my Raspberry Pi to a mounted network share (SMB). I've put together this script:
#!/bin/bash
dt=$(date '+%d-%m-%Y_%H-%M-%S');
sudo rsync -a -v /home/pi/davisbot/audio/ /mnt/resources/davisbot_audios/ --log-file=davislog.log
sudo cp -rv /home/pi/davislog.log /mnt/resources/davisbot_audios/"$dt"davislog.log
When I run the script, it works perfectly and instantly backups said files to the share. My cron job however doesnt work (Contents of crontab -e):
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/home/pi/davisbackup.sh
* * * * * /home/pi/davisbackup.sh
In the first line I've put the PATH variable because someone told me it might help, unfortunately it didn't. Also I've tried this:
* * * * * bash -lc /home/pi/davisbackup.sh
which also didn't help. I used sudo service cron restart during every try. What is left that I can try? Help would be greatly appreciated :)
Currently I am writing a little script which should add a cronjob to the root crontable. But it seems that my root crontable stopped working. When I try to run the crontab commands in my bash scrip, I get "command not found". Also it worked for some time and stopped working yesterday. Now when I enter "sudo crontab -l" I don't get "no crontab for root" anymore. I am not sure what I did wrong. Here is my code:
#!/bin/bash
sudo crontab -l > rootcron 2> /dev/null
sudo echo "test" >> rootcron
sudo crontab rootcron
sudo rm rootcron
You didn't specify when the command is to be run. Typically you would see something like:
*/5 * * * * touch /tmp/test-cron
So basically you probably have an invalid cron file. What are the contents of the file now?
When I execute swapoff -a && swapon -a that works like a charm and when I create a scriptfile swap.sh and I run that it works great too.
chmod 755 swap.sh
But when I make a crontab that should execute the script, than nothing happens.
crontab -e
0 2 * * * /scripts/swap.sh
Am I missing something here?
Since you confirmed the script is running as super user (sudo) and the file has permissions to execute the problem is other thing (cron in this case):
Try using the full path
/sbin/swapoff -a && /sbin/swapon -a
You have to use full absolute pathnames in crontab commands because when cron runs a script, it does not perform initial login activity (which is where the path(s) are set).
All credits go to: https://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1766875.html
I am running a bash script that transfers files to my AWS bucket.If i run the bash script through my terminal it works fine (via ./myBash.sh).
However I put it in my crontab but there it doesn't work.This is my bash script
#!/bin/bash
s3cmd put /home/anonymous/commLogs.txt s3://myBucket/
echo transfer completed
echo now listing files in the s3 bucket
s3cmd ls s3://myBucket/
echo check
And this is my crontab-
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
46 13 * * * /bin/bash myBash.sh
And here is a list of things i have aready tried -
1)tried running the crontab with a node app to test whether crontab was working(the answer was yes)
2)tried running the crontab without the SHELL and PATH
3)Tried running the bash script from cron using sudo (46 13 * * * sudo myBash.sh)
4)tried running the bash without the /bin/bash
5) Searched many sites on the net for an answer without satisfactory results
Can anyone help me with what the problem may be?(I am running Ubuntu 14.04)
After a long time getting the same error, I just did this :
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
* * * * * /bin/bash /home/joaovitordeon/Documentos/test.sh
For anyone coming to this post.
I was having same problem and reason was crontab was running under root user and s3cmd was configured under ubuntu user.
so need to copy .s3cfg to root
cp -i /home/ubuntu/.s3cfg /root/.s3cfg
I am trying to run a shell script on crontab on Ubuntu platform. I have tried googling and other links but nothing has helped so far.
This is my crontab:
*/2 * * * * sudo bash /data/html/mysite/site_cleanup.sh
This is the content of my sh file:
#!/bin/sh
# How many days retention do we want ?
DAYS=0
# geting present day
now=$(date +"%m_%d_%Y")
# Where is the base directory
BASEDIR=/data/html/mysite
#where is the backup directory
BKPDIR=/data/html/backup
# Where is the log file
LOGFILE=$BKPDIR/log/mysite.log
# add to tar
tar -cvzf $now.tar.gz $BASEDIR
mv $now.tar.gz $BKPDIR
# REMOVE OLD FILES
echo `date` Purge Started >> $LOGFILE
find $BASEDIR -mtime +$DAYS | xargs rm
echo `date` Purge Completed >> $LOGFILE
The same script runs from a terminal and gives the desired result.
Generic troubleshooting for noninteractive shell scripts
Put set -x; exec 2>/path/to/logfile at the top of your script to log all subsequent commands to a file as they're run. If this doesn't work, you'll know that your script isn't being run at all; if it does, you'll know where it fails and how.
If this is a personal crontab
If you're running crontab -e as a user (without sudo), then the crontab being modified is one for commands run with that user's permissions. Check that file permissions allow that user to modify the content in question (which, if these files are in a cgi-bin directory, may require being run by the same user as the web server).
If your intent is to have commands run as root, rather than as your own user, be sure you use sudo when editing the crontab to edit the system crontab instead (but please take care as to your script's correctness in this case -- carelessness such as missing quotes or lack of appropriate precautions in xargs usage can cause a script to delete the wrong files if malicious filenames are created):
sudo crontab -e ## to edit the system (root) crontab
...or, if you're cleaning up files owned by the apache user (for example; check which account is correct for your own operating system and web server):
sudo -u apache crontab -e ## to edit the apache user's crontab
Troubleshooting for a system crontab
Do not attempt to put a sudo command within the commands run by cron; with sudo's default configuration, it requires a TTY (a keyboard and screen) to be attached to a session in order to run. Thus, your crontab line should not contain sudo, but instead should look like the following:
*/2 * * * * bash /data/html/mysite/site_cleanup.sh
Your issue is likely coming from the sudo call from your user level cron. Unless you've gone through and edited the bashrc profile to allow that script to run without sudo it'll hang up every time.
So you can lookup how to run a script with no password by modifying the bashrc profile, remove the sudo call if you aren't doing something in your script that calls for Super User permissions, or as a last ditch, extremely bad idea you can call your script from root's cron by doing sudo crontab -e or sudo env EDITOR=nano crontab -e if you prefer nano as your editor.
try to add this line to the crontab of user root and without the sudo.
like this:
*/2 * * * * bash /data/html/mysite/site_cleanup.sh