[SOLVED] Daily cron script is not executed

Troubleshooting
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Hi,

I have set up a script in the /etc/cron.daily folder which is not executed for some reason.

This is the script, I have blurred out the upload to my personal ftp server and switched to github.

I 've already tested it executing it directly and have ssh keys deployed on github, no passphrase is asked even after reboot, so it should run ok, but it is not.

2

Hi,

did you checked to have the script located directly inside /etc/cron.daily and not using a symlink. As well you can have a look what will be executed as follow

run-parts --list /etc/cron.daily
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dietpi@DietPiZero:~$ run-parts --list /etc/cron.daily/
/etc/cron.daily//apt-compat
/etc/cron.daily//aptitude
/etc/cron.daily//dietpi
/etc/cron.daily//dpkg
/etc/cron.daily//passwd
/etc/cron.daily//samba
/etc/cron.daily//updater

It is symlinked, but will try to have it inside the directory directly. Its the “updater” script.

4

Looks like even this didn’t work. I mean copying and pasting the script directly into the cron.daily folder.

5

you could run run-parts --test /etc/cron.daily to check which scrits are going to be executed. And using run-parts /etc/cron.daily to actually have them executed. As well you can have a look if cron is executed at all journalctl -u cron.service or systemctl status cron.service

Btw: if you don’t like to play with all daily cron jobs, you can move your script into /etc/cron.monthly: Usually it should be empty.

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I 'll mark this thread as solved. Reason for this is that I had to deploy ssh keys ALSO into the root user.

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ah indeed, cron is executed as root user. Makes sense to have the SSH key deployed on root user as well :slight_smile: