[SOLVED] Start VM everyday at 7:00am

[jjm]

Hi to all,
I m looking for a sulution for start VM(105) everyday at 7:00 if it is stopped.
it's not worked in crontab.


start.sh
#! /bin/bash
status=`qm status 105 | awk -F " " '{print $2}'`
if [ $status = "stopped" ] ; then
qm start 105
fi

crontab -l
0 7 * * * /var/lib/vz/snippets/105/start.sh

logs:
Feb 23 07:00:00 proxmox systemd[1]: Starting Proxmox VE replication runner...
Feb 23 07:00:01 proxmox systemd[1]: pvesr.service: Succeeded.
Feb 23 07:00:01 proxmox systemd[1]: Started Proxmox VE replication runner.
Feb 23 07:00:01 proxmox CRON[21835]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Feb 23 07:00:01 proxmox CRON[21836]: (root) CMD (/var/lib/vz/snippets/105/start.sh)
Feb 23 07:00:02 proxmox CRON[21835]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
Feb 23 07:00:02 proxmox postfix/pickup[9174]: 1395923055: uid=0 from=<root>
Feb 23 07:00:02 proxmox postfix/cleanup[21843]: 1395923055: message-id=<20240222230002.1395923055@proxmox.host>
Feb 23 07:00:02 proxmox postfix/qmgr[4756]: 1395923055: from=<root@proxmox.host>, size=675, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Feb 23 07:00:02 proxmox pvemailforward[21847]: forward mail to <root@local.host>

 

[bbgeek17]

status=`qm status 105 | awk -F " " '{print $2}'`

crontab does not load user profile, hence there is no PATH, so it cant find "qm" binary (most likely).
Always use absolute paths in crontab scripts, unless you also load appropriate variables within the script.

P.S.
Test you scripts with every min execution of "qm status" for example, or "qm list", dumping output to file

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[jjm]

Thanks !
It's OK.

 

[alyarb]

if needed, use which to find the full path to all of the executables in your crons. always use the complete path

 

[czechsys]

And you can think about changing from cron to systemd unit.