Crontab -e looks to be running commands properly but i do not recieve expected results

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Required Information

  • DietPi version | G_DIETPI_VERSION_CORE=9 G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB=2 G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC=1 G_GITBRANCH='master' G_GITOWNER='MichaIng'
  • Distro version | no response
  • Kernel version | Linux DietPi 6.6.20+rpt-rpi-2712 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.6.20-1+rpt1 (2024-03-07) aarch64 GNU/Linuxl
  • Architecture | arm64
  • SBC model | RPi5
  • Power supply used | (official raspberry 5 power supply)
  • SD card used | (SanDisk ultra)

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Steps to reproduce

  1. Get an installation of Minecraft Forge (1.20.1)
  2. Copy command from run.sh in server root and insert into crontab -e
    3m bash cd ,<run.sh last line>
    (DietPi minutely was enabled)

Expected behaviour

  • Server runs as expected through crontab job with the command provided in server root

Actual behaviour

  • systemctl shows something happening but the server never starts.

Extra details

  • Command looks like
    3m java @user_jvm_args.txt @/mnt/dietpi-userdata/mineos/serverdata/servers/tmmforge/libraries/net/minecraftforge/forge/1.20.1-47.2.0/unix_args.txt "$@"

Can you share the whole crontab entry you have created.

And just to a avoid a misunderstanding. Crontab is something different than running cron jobs via DietPi minutely

# Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron.
# 
# Each task to run has to be defined through a single line
# indicating with different fields when the task will be run
# and what command to run for the task
# 
# To define the time you can provide concrete values for
# minute (m), hour (h), day of month (dom), month (mon),
# and day of week (dow) or use '*' in these fields (for 'any').
# 
# Notice that tasks will be started based on the cron's system
# daemon's notion of time and timezones.
# 
# Output of the crontab jobs (including errors) is sent through
# email to the user the crontab file belongs to (unless redirected).
# 
# For example, you can run a backup of all your user accounts
# at 5 a.m every week with:
# 0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/
# 
# For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8)
# 
# m h  dom mon dow   command
3m bash cd /mnt/dietpi_userdata/mineos/serverdata/servers/tmmforge,java @user_jvm_args.txt @libraries/net/minecraftforge/forge/1.20.1-47.2.0/unix_args.txt "$@"
h bash cd /mnt/dietpi_userdata/mineos/serverdata/servers/tmmforge,java @user_jvm_args.txt @libraries/net/minecraftforge/forge/1.20.1-47.2.0/unix_args.txt "$@"
3m java @user_jvm_args.txt @/mnt/dietpi-userdata/mineos/serverdata/servers/tmmforge/libraries/net/minecraftforge/forge/1.20.1-47.2.0/unix_args.txt "$@"
# ^ minecraft tmm forge autostart

^ every entry i made were attempts on getting it to work
Previously I attempted making an dietpi cron job with the provided .sh file in the installation but when I tried to access the server it would be offline.
(located in /etc/cron.minutely/tmmforge), tmmforge being a self-created directory.
Original run file looks like

#!/usr/bin/env sh
# Forge requires a configured set of both JVM and program arguments.
# Add custom JVM arguments to the user_jvm_args.txt
# Add custom program arguments {such as nogui} to this file in the next line before the "$@" or
#  pass them to this script directly
java @user_jvm_args.txt @libraries/net/minecraftforge/forge/1.20.1-47.2.0/unix_args.txt "$@"

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