Cron job

[Godisard]

Hi,

How do I set up a new cron job? Can I just edit crontab in /etc and add whatever I need (I want to add a weekly job to run the gravity.sh script for pihole)? It seems to work slightly different than in wheezy and before I break anything ...

Thanks

[Fourdee]

Hi,

How do I set up a new cron job? Can I just edit crontab in /etc and add whatever I need (I want to add a weekly job to run the gravity.sh script for pihole)? It seems to work slightly different than in wheezy and before I break anything ...

Thanks

Hi,

You can setup a simple weekly cron job for this. Please see below for a guide and example on how to set this up:

Create and edit your weekly cron job:

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nano /etc/cron.weekly/my_cron_job

Enter the following into your new cron job:

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#!/bin/bash

#Run Gravity
/usr/local/bin/gravity.sh

#Restart dnsmasq
service dnsmasq restart

Give your cron job execute permissions so it can run:

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chmod +x /etc/cron.weekly/my_cron_job

Test your cron job:

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/etc/cron.weekly/my_cron_job

[Godisard]

Yep that works . Many thanks!

[slook]

i know its super old but still first entry on google search

i did everything like Fourdee said.
the test worked as well. but the cron job is not executed :/

did anything change?

[Joulinar]

Hi,
many thanks for your report.

pls can you past the following command

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ls -l /etc/cron.weekly

just replace cron.weekly with the cron folder you used.

[slook]

i will try it later today.
just for the learning curve: what is ls -l doing?

[Joulinar]

ls is going to show the content of a directory

[slook]

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1478 Mai 28 2019 apt-compat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1621 Jan 19 19:54 dietpi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1187 Apr 19 2019 dpkg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 96 Jan 20 20:56 my_job
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 249 Sep 27 2017 passwd

[Joulinar]

Are you able to show the content of your script?

[slook]

the script is huge.

if i run /etc/cron.daily/my_job

it works without problems, does cron have logs somewhere?