Crontab doesn't work
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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
cron
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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
cron
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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 commandfor i in $(seq 1 3);do screen top;doneand 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 newscreento 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
cron
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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
cron
cron
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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 commandfor i in $(seq 1 3);do screen top;doneand 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 newscreento 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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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 commandfor i in $(seq 1 3);do screen top;doneand 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 newscreento 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
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
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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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;doneand 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
screento 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