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I will tell every 5 min a start.sh with the code:



screen nodejs app.js


in my crontab -e i write this:



*/5 * * * * /bin/sh /home/my/folder/to/start.sh


my start.sh hase 777 and my app.js hase 777
The start.sh and the app.js is in the same folder.



After crontab -e i make a service cron reload










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  • What is expected and what is seen?

    – George Udosen
    yesterday











  • Expected = A new screen what start my app.js with nodejs Seen = Nothing ... No new screen no start.

    – BierGarten100
    yesterday













  • Are you expecting the cron to start every 5mins or is that a mistake, also try this command for i in $(seq 1 3);do screen top;done and you will see that only one instance of the screen program is started! So I think the way you running screen might be the issue!

    – George Udosen
    yesterday











  • Are you expecting for the new screen to run as a background process? or do you expect to open a terminal window?

    – bistoco
    yesterday






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    Either case, the best way to debug a cron job (my opinion) is to output everything to a log file like this */5 * * * * /bin/sh /home/my/folder/to/start.sh >> /home/my/folder/to/start.sh.log 2>&1.

    – bistoco
    yesterday
















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I will tell every 5 min a start.sh with the code:



screen nodejs app.js


in my crontab -e i write this:



*/5 * * * * /bin/sh /home/my/folder/to/start.sh


my start.sh hase 777 and my app.js hase 777
The start.sh and the app.js is in the same folder.



After crontab -e i make a service cron reload










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  • What is expected and what is seen?

    – George Udosen
    yesterday











  • Expected = A new screen what start my app.js with nodejs Seen = Nothing ... No new screen no start.

    – BierGarten100
    yesterday













  • Are you expecting the cron to start every 5mins or is that a mistake, also try this command for i in $(seq 1 3);do screen top;done and you will see that only one instance of the screen program is started! So I think the way you running screen might be the issue!

    – George Udosen
    yesterday











  • Are you expecting for the new screen to run as a background process? or do you expect to open a terminal window?

    – bistoco
    yesterday






  • 1





    Either case, the best way to debug a cron job (my opinion) is to output everything to a log file like this */5 * * * * /bin/sh /home/my/folder/to/start.sh >> /home/my/folder/to/start.sh.log 2>&1.

    – bistoco
    yesterday














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I will tell every 5 min a start.sh with the code:



screen nodejs app.js


in my crontab -e i write this:



*/5 * * * * /bin/sh /home/my/folder/to/start.sh


my start.sh hase 777 and my app.js hase 777
The start.sh and the app.js is in the same folder.



After crontab -e i make a service cron reload










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I will tell every 5 min a start.sh with the code:



screen nodejs app.js


in my crontab -e i write this:



*/5 * * * * /bin/sh /home/my/folder/to/start.sh


my start.sh hase 777 and my app.js hase 777
The start.sh and the app.js is in the same folder.



After crontab -e i make a service cron reload







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  • What is expected and what is seen?

    – George Udosen
    yesterday











  • Expected = A new screen what start my app.js with nodejs Seen = Nothing ... No new screen no start.

    – BierGarten100
    yesterday













  • Are you expecting the cron to start every 5mins or is that a mistake, also try this command for i in $(seq 1 3);do screen top;done and you will see that only one instance of the screen program is started! So I think the way you running screen might be the issue!

    – George Udosen
    yesterday











  • Are you expecting for the new screen to run as a background process? or do you expect to open a terminal window?

    – bistoco
    yesterday






  • 1





    Either case, the best way to debug a cron job (my opinion) is to output everything to a log file like this */5 * * * * /bin/sh /home/my/folder/to/start.sh >> /home/my/folder/to/start.sh.log 2>&1.

    – bistoco
    yesterday



















  • What is expected and what is seen?

    – George Udosen
    yesterday











  • Expected = A new screen what start my app.js with nodejs Seen = Nothing ... No new screen no start.

    – BierGarten100
    yesterday













  • Are you expecting the cron to start every 5mins or is that a mistake, also try this command for i in $(seq 1 3);do screen top;done and you will see that only one instance of the screen program is started! So I think the way you running screen might be the issue!

    – George Udosen
    yesterday











  • Are you expecting for the new screen to run as a background process? or do you expect to open a terminal window?

    – bistoco
    yesterday






  • 1





    Either case, the best way to debug a cron job (my opinion) is to output everything to a log file like this */5 * * * * /bin/sh /home/my/folder/to/start.sh >> /home/my/folder/to/start.sh.log 2>&1.

    – bistoco
    yesterday

















What is expected and what is seen?

– George Udosen
yesterday





What is expected and what is seen?

– George Udosen
yesterday













Expected = A new screen what start my app.js with nodejs Seen = Nothing ... No new screen no start.

– BierGarten100
yesterday







Expected = A new screen what start my app.js with nodejs Seen = Nothing ... No new screen no start.

– BierGarten100
yesterday















Are you expecting the cron to start every 5mins or is that a mistake, also try this command for i in $(seq 1 3);do screen top;done and you will see that only one instance of the screen program is started! So I think the way you running screen might be the issue!

– George Udosen
yesterday





Are you expecting the cron to start every 5mins or is that a mistake, also try this command for i in $(seq 1 3);do screen top;done and you will see that only one instance of the screen program is started! So I think the way you running screen might be the issue!

– George Udosen
yesterday













Are you expecting for the new screen to run as a background process? or do you expect to open a terminal window?

– bistoco
yesterday





Are you expecting for the new screen to run as a background process? or do you expect to open a terminal window?

– bistoco
yesterday




1




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Either case, the best way to debug a cron job (my opinion) is to output everything to a log file like this */5 * * * * /bin/sh /home/my/folder/to/start.sh >> /home/my/folder/to/start.sh.log 2>&1.

– bistoco
yesterday





Either case, the best way to debug a cron job (my opinion) is to output everything to a log file like this */5 * * * * /bin/sh /home/my/folder/to/start.sh >> /home/my/folder/to/start.sh.log 2>&1.

– bistoco
yesterday










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