user dietpi/root crontab not working Topic is solved

[trendy]

I added a few cronjobs in dietpi user crontab (with 'crontab -e')

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15 5 * * * /usr/bin/touch /mnt/backup/magiatiko/test-$(date +%F)
16 5 * * * /usr/bin/scp root@magiatiko:/tmp/backup-magiatiko-$(date +%F).tar.gz /mnt/backup/magiatiko/
20 5 * * * /usr/bin/find /mnt/backup/magiatiko -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm -f {} \;
21 5 * * * /usr/bin/find /mnt/backup/kodi -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm -f {} \;

I added the first one to verify that it indeed works, but no file is created.
All commands run successfully when run from shell as user dietpi.
Am I missing something?

[Joulinar]

Did you tried to place inside root user crontab?

[trendy]

No, because I don't want to run the commands as root user.
Doesn't the dietpi user crontab work?

[Joulinar]

it was more for testing purposes to check if it's working at all

[trendy]

It is not working for root either.
I added the first job (with touch) and it was not created.

[Joulinar]

ok I created a cron job for this night on one of my test RPi systems. let's see how it's going

[Joulinar]

Hi @trendy

I did a test entry on my crontab for user dietpi

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dietpi@DietPi3:~$ crontab -l
00 00 * * * date > /tmp/date.log
dietpi@DietPi3:~$

And for me it was working fine. The file was created at Midnight as expected

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root@DietPi3:/tmp# ls -la |grep date.log
-rw-r--r--  1 dietpi dietpi   30 Jul 22 00:00 date.log
root@DietPi3:/tmp# cat date.log
Wed Jul 22 00:00:01 CEST 2020
root@DietPi3:/tmp#

[trendy]

Your date command worked for me as well.
I think there is something wrong with the special characters in my commands, therefore let's mark it as solved. Thank you for the tip!

[Joulinar]

Just an idea. Place you commands into a script and let the script be executed by crontab.

[trendy]

I was trying to avoid that, not to have many different scripts. If I fail to escape the special characters correctly, I'll resort to that.