Hey guys, i’m new to the forum and new to manjaro and linux in general.
Hope this is the right place to post my question.
I have a problem getting my cron jobs to run and i can’t figure out why.
I set up everything like in this tutorial:
archived.forum.manjaro(dot)org/t/how-to-create-a-cron-job-in-manjaro/105
(it won’t let me post a link, sry)
this is my file structure:
[...@...-pc ~]$ ls /etc/cron*
/etc/cron.deny
/etc/cron.d:
mycronjobs
/etc/cron.daily:
/etc/cron.hourly:
0anacron
/etc/cron.minutely:
sortFiles
/etc/cron.monthly:
/etc/cron.weekly:
The mycronjobs file looks like this:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
*/1 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.minutely #Runs a cron job script every minute
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly #Runs a cron job script every hour
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily #Runs a cron job script every day
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly #Runs a cron job script every week
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly #Runs a cron job script every month
The "sortFiles" file (which i want to run) looks like this:
mv /home/.../Downloads/*.nzb /var/snap/sabnzbd/common/nzbs \;
find /var/snap/sabnzbd/common/Downloads -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 ! \( -name "incomplete" -o -iname "_unpack_*" -o -iname "_failed_*" \) -exec mv {} /home/.../Downloads/ \;
If i run these commands from the terminal they work, but it won’t run automatically.
journalctl -xb -u cronie
gives the output:
-- Journal begins at Fri 2021-06-04 13:07:52 CEST, ends at Sat 2021-09-18 11:02:01 CEST. --
Sep 18 10:16:00 ...-pc crond[713]: (CRON) STARTUP (1.5.7)
Sep 18 10:16:00 ...-pc crond[713]: (CRON) INFO (Syslog will be used instead of sendmail.)
Sep 18 10:16:00 ...-pc crond[713]: (CRON) INFO (RANDOM_DELAY will be scaled with factor 84% if used.)
Sep 18 10:16:00 ...-pc crond[713]: (CRON) INFO (running with inotify support)
Sep 18 10:16:00 ...-pc systemd[1]: Started Periodic Command Scheduler.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit cronie.service has finished successfully
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: ...
░░
░░ A start job for unit cronie.service has finished successfully.
░░
░░ The job identifier is 132.
Sep 18 10:17:01 ...-pc CROND[2031]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.minutely #Runs a cron job script every minute)
Sep 18 10:17:01 ...-pc CROND[2030]: (root) CMDEND (run-parts /etc/cron.minutely #Runs a cron job script every minute)
and
systemctl status cronie
shows
● cronie.service - Periodic Command Scheduler
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cronie.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Sat 2021-09-18 10:16:00 CEST; 49min ago
Main PID: 713 (crond)
Tasks: 2 (limit: 38451)
Memory: 1.1M
CPU: 771ms
CGroup: /system.slice/cronie.service
├─ 713 /usr/bin/crond -n
└─3529 /usr/sbin/anacron -s
Sep 18 11:01:01 ...-pc anacron[3529]: Will run job `cron.daily' in 15 min.
Sep 18 11:01:01 ...-pc anacron[3529]: Jobs will be executed sequentially
Sep 18 11:02:01 ...-pc CROND[3538]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.minutely #Runs a cron job script every minute)
Sep 18 11:02:01 ...-pc CROND[3537]: (root) CMDEND (run-parts /etc/cron.minutely #Runs a cron job script every minute)
Sep 18 11:03:01 ...-pc CROND[3551]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.minutely #Runs a cron job script every minute)
Sep 18 11:03:01 ...-pc CROND[3550]: (root) CMDEND (run-parts /etc/cron.minutely #Runs a cron job script every minute)
For me it looks like everything is running, can somebody help me?
Thank you!