I recently updated DietPi to v7.1.2
I’m running a small OLED screen to display stats of my PiHole. I have a cron setup to show it. But after the upgrade it resetted my crontab.
@reboot sh /home/dietpi/launcherstats.sh >/home/dietpi/logs/cronlog 2>&1
What happened? I didn’t rebooted the Pi4 after the upgrade.
We do not touch crontabs, actually, aside of maybe a service user with a single purpose.
From which DietPi version did you upgrade and where did you add that cron job? /etc/crontab or /etc/cron.d/ or via crontab -e, if so which user?
DietPi themselves didn’t do anything with the crontab during DietPi code update… Did you checked the crontab for the correct user? I found some reports on the web that an apt package update for cron could lead to such side effects. But not sure how trustable something like this is https://askubuntu.com/questions/216692/where-is-the-user-crontab-stored
@MichaIng It was as sudo root.
====>>> So the root’s crontab shows my script! but why isn’t it executed ?
I don’t remember which version i upgraded from. I used the download from the site from couple weeks ago. Anyway i can see what version i used?
There where some updates along the way, i know it stopped working since yesterday.
the script is executed at boot but you stated you did not reboot?
I thought i didnt needed to reboot.
just give it a try and see if your script will be executed
Well i’d be damned! I thought after updating you dont need to reboot. Just major updates, and i thought nothing had really changed… Man i feel stupid now…
well before DietPi will update it’s own script, an apt package update is triggered. Probably some software packages got updated forcing your script to stop
Yes i did saw it stop cron, maybe didn’t restarted it? thats why i posted it.
cron should be restarted after the package update but your script is executed on reboot only. That’s how you set it up using @reboot 
Ah yes @reboot is not triggered at cron restart, only on actual reboot 
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