# crontab -e not starting script
**URL:** https://dietpi.com/forum/t/crontab-e-not-starting-script/6270
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [3 February 2022 12:51 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/crontab-e-not-starting-script/6270 "2022-02-03T12:51:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@hastrup](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/hastrup)
#### Post date: [3 February 2022 12:51 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/crontab-e-not-starting-script/6270/1 "2022-02-03T12:51:24Z")
hey i have looking in the forum old answers for cron but cant for the life of get this working. i have done exactly same thing on my x64 machine line by line and it is working there.
i have a program i want to start on boot its in /home/dietpi/ccminer/ my script is call mine.sh
And it works
it start minening when i do ./mine.sh
then i go crontab -e put the line
@reboot /home/dietpi/ccminer/mine.sh
save and exit
but when i reboot nothing start
do you have some ideas?
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### Author:  [@Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Joulinar)
#### Post date: [3 February 2022 20:07 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/crontab-e-not-starting-script/6270/2 "2022-02-03T20:07:39Z")
what is the user you are using to run crontab -e? is it root user? or something else?
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### Author:  [@hastrup](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/hastrup)
#### Post date: [3 February 2022 21:29 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/crontab-e-not-starting-script/6270/3 "2022-02-03T21:29:55Z")
the user is both root and dietpi i tried both
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### Author:  [@Jappe](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Jappe)
#### Post date: [3 February 2022 21:59 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/crontab-e-not-starting-script/6270/4 "2022-02-03T21:59:11Z")
Can you show your crontab and the content of the script mine.sh?
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### Author:  [@hastrup](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/hastrup)
#### Post date: [4 February 2022 06:55 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/crontab-e-not-starting-script/6270/5 "2022-02-04T06:55:59Z")
yes ofc
[https://imgur.com/a/p2ejOVL](https://imgur.com/a/p2ejOVL)
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### Author:  [@Jappe](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Jappe)
#### Post date: [4 February 2022 09:14 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/crontab-e-not-starting-script/6270/6 "2022-02-04T09:14:13Z")
So I counted the lines in your crontab 😃 It read 25 lines but your last line is your entry.
Crontab needs that each entry ends with a newline character.
Go to the end of your entry, hit Return and save and try again.
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### Author:  [@hastrup](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/hastrup)
#### Post date: [4 February 2022 15:04 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/crontab-e-not-starting-script/6270/7 "2022-02-04T15:04:46Z")
im sorry that that did not work
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### Author:  [@trendy](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/trendy)
#### Post date: [4 February 2022 16:07 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/crontab-e-not-starting-script/6270/8 "2022-02-04T16:07:22Z")
A couple of things, there is no [shebang](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25165808/should-i-use-a-shebang-with-bash-scripts) on the header of the script, and when you create scripts you should either use the full path or specify the PATH environmental variable.
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### Author:  [@Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Joulinar)
#### Post date: [4 February 2022 18:23 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/crontab-e-not-starting-script/6270/9 "2022-02-04T18:23:59Z")
correct, the program ccminer to be called with full path from inside the script