Aug 16, 2011
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UBUNTU: why my crontab isn’t running the code?

Question

Hi all
I’ve configured manually the /etc/crontab to add an event that runs on day 9 every months…

The Cron is running, but it didn’t runned my code yet…
My code is at the last line:

17 *    * * *   root    cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6    * * *   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
47 6    * * 7   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly )
52 6    1 * *   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly )
23 9    9 * *   root    wget "http://www.mysite.com/url.api?dowhat=mensalcheck" --no-cache --read-timeout=1600 -O "/var/log/mysite.com/$(date "+url-api.%d-%m-%y.log")"

Answer

To make sure your cron is run, use “crontab -e” or “sudo crontab -e” to edit your cron jobs. Then when you’re done editing and saved the file, crontab will install the new cronjob properly to be executed the next time.

So, use sudo crontab -e and make sure you at least do one modification to the file.

Also cron usually has no PATH variable, meaning it does know where to find wget, so the best is to put /usr/bin/wget.

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