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Minsky avatar Ubuntu

jobs not running cron ubuntu20.04

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Minsky

My user defined cron job isn't running. I've checked out some answers, like this one, and all these seem to be correct:

  • Use the full path to your script in the crontab
  • make sure it is executable: sudo chmod +x my_script
  • You got the path to the interpreter wrong in the first line of your script: it should be #!/bin/bash
# For example, you can run a backup of all your user accounts
# at 5 a.m every week with:
# 0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/
# "sync" is my script, has #!/bin/env bash in first line
 * * * * 1 /home/user1/clones/configs/sync && notify-send "executed sync"
 0 * * * 1 git -C /home/user1/clones/configs add -A && git -C /home/user1/clones/configs/ commit -m "synced"

I am aware that the file was reloaded after editing using crontab -e. Output from systemctl status cron:

Feb 20 09:31:01 code cron[631]: (sm) RELOAD (crontabs/user1)
Feb 20 09:32:01 code cron[631]: (sm) RELOAD (crontabs/user1)

And the grep CRON /var/log/syslog shows only some commands executed by root:

Feb 20 09:17:01 code CRON[4600]: (root) CMD (   cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Feb 20 09:30:01 code CRON[6806]: (root) CMD ([ -x /etc/init.d/anacron ] && if [ ! -d /run/systemd/system ]; then /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d anacron start >/dev/null; fi)

Any help?

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Minsky avatar Ubuntu
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Minsky

The problem is this instruction:

 * * * * 1

That will only run first day of the week. Now I just tested with

 * * * * *

And will end up using

 0 * * * *
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pa4080
There is available a plenty of tools like this one: https://crontab.guru/
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