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Now live: A fully responsive profile. A service such as Dead man's snitch will most certainly help you knowing when it failed. The premise is that you'll send a request to their service and if no request has been sent in the last X minutes, it will notify you that your cronjob likely failed and you need to check it out.
Having your crontab checked in with git is certainly helpful. If you're using dokku there is the helpful plugin supply-config that does almost that. There is an open PR that amends that gap. Dokku documentation also have some helpful reminders on what to keep in mind when configuring a crontab.
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Once you know that, adjust your crontab entry accordingly. The schedule entry for crontab is of course defined in man crontab , and you should read this. However, reading man crontab , and understanding the schedule are two different things. And trial-and-error on a schedule specification can become very tedious. Fortunately, there is a resource that can help: the crontab guru.
Enter your schedule specification, and it will explain the schedule in plain English language. Finally, and at risk of being redundant with one of the other answers here, do not get trapped into thinking that you are limited to a single crontab entry because you have one job to schedule.
You are free to use as many crontab entries as you need to get the schedule you need. Therefore my solution was to write a wrapper script that would:. This was originally a BASH script, but it got hung up on arguments with spaces so I rewrote it all in python. It will even launch GUI apps into the userspace:. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams?
Learn more. Why is my crontab not working, and how can I troubleshoot it? Ask Question. Asked 8 years, 11 months ago. Active 6 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. Eric Leschinski Eric Leschinski 3, 4 4 gold badges 19 19 silver badges 26 26 bronze badges. This is a huge dupe of Reasons why crontab does not work on AskUbuntu. I just joined Server Fault SE so only rep , but would love to give this question a -1!!
Was this question only made to get rep? IamtheMostStupidPerson Totally agree with you Ha ha ha : Well said. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. First, basic terminology: cron 8 is the daemon that executes scheduled commands. Next, education about cron: Every user on a system may have their own crontab file. There are two formats for crontab files: User crontabs Example of job definition:. The command will be run as the named user.
The fields are separated by spaces or tabs. A comma , is used to specify a list e. Ranges are specified with a dash - and may be combined with lists e. They do not wrap past the end. Ranges and steps can be combined e. Debugging cron commands Check the mail! If required you can filter the cron statements with e. Check that cron is running If cron isn't running then your commands won't be scheduled If your command is in a different location you can solve this in a couple of ways: Provide the full path to your command.
The last command in my crontab doesn't run Cron generally requires that commands are terminated with a new line. Tell the system what to use when executing your script eg. Improve this answer. The output capture does not work for me, may be because of the sh shell. I think this is more portable Because I ran simple hello world in python with cron, it worked.
But my second code was a bit heavy and normally do run but with cron it is not giving any output into the file. Show 4 more comments. See man cron for more details, if necessary. Munkeh72 Munkeh72 2 2 silver badges 5 5 bronze badges.
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