Cronjobs not executing

[kalekulan]

Hi,

I'm trying to setup a nightly cronjob to put my server to sleep. It doesn't execute, but works fine using the command line.

Syslog doesn't give me anything, neither does journalctl. I tried increasing the log level but that doesn't change things either.

➜crontab -e
# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
# command to install the new version when you edit this file
# and files in /etc/cron.d. These files also have username fields,
# that none of the other crontabs do.

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

# Example of job definition:
# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)
# |  .------------- hour (0 - 23)
# |  |  .---------- day of month (1 - 31)
# |  |  |  .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...
# |  |  |  |  .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
# |  |  |  |  |
# *  *  *  *  * user-name command to be executed
17 *    * * *   root    cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6    * * *   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || { cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily; }
47 6    * * 7   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || { cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly; }
52 6    1 * *   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || { cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly; }
27 11   * * *   root    /usr/sbin/rtcwake -m off -s 60

➜cat /etc/default/cron
# Cron configuration options

# Whether to read the system's default environment files (if present)
# If set to "yes", cron will set a proper mail charset from the
# locale information. If set to something other than 'yes', the default
# charset 'C' (canonical name: ANSI_X3.4-1968) will be used.
#
# This has no effect on tasks running under cron; their environment can
# only be changed via PAM or from within the crontab; see crontab(5).
READ_ENV="yes"

# Extra options for cron, see cron(8)
#
# For example, to enable LSB name support in /etc/cron.d/, use
# EXTRA_OPTS='-l'
#
# Or, to log standard messages, plus jobs with exit status != 0:
EXTRA_OPTS='-L 5'
#
# For quick reference, the currently available log levels are:
#   0   no logging (errors are logged regardless)
#   1   log start of jobs
#   2   log end of jobs
#   4   log jobs with exit status != 0
#   8   log the process identifier of child process (in all logs)
#
#EXTRA_OPTS=""

➜ journalctl -b -g cron
Sep 11 09:18:31 proxmox systemd[1]: Started cron.service - Regular background program processing daemon.
Sep 11 09:18:31 proxmox cron[1614]: (CRON) INFO (pidfile fd = 3)
Sep 11 09:18:31 proxmox cron[1614]: (CRON) INFO (Running @reboot jobs)
Sep 11 09:18:31 proxmox CRON[1617]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=0)
Sep 11 09:19:31 proxmox CRON[1617]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
Sep 11 10:17:01 proxmox CRON[45479]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=0)
Sep 11 10:17:01 proxmox CRON[45480]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=0)
Sep 11 10:17:01 proxmox CRON[45481]: (root) CMD (cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Sep 11 10:17:01 proxmox CRON[45482]: (root) CMD (root^Icd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Sep 11 10:17:01 proxmox CRON[45479]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
Sep 11 10:17:01 proxmox CRON[45480]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
Sep 11 11:17:01 proxmox CRON[78228]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=0)
Sep 11 11:17:01 proxmox CRON[78229]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=0)
Sep 11 11:17:01 proxmox CRON[78230]: (root) CMD (cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Sep 11 11:17:01 proxmox CRON[78231]: (root) CMD (root^Icd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Sep 11 11:17:01 proxmox CRON[78228]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
Sep 11 11:17:01 proxmox CRON[78229]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
Sep 11 11:22:14 proxmox systemd[1]: Stopping cron.service - Regular background program processing daemon...
Sep 11 11:22:14 proxmox systemd[1]: cron.service: Deactivated successfully.
Sep 11 11:22:14 proxmox systemd[1]: Stopped cron.service - Regular background program processing daemon.
Sep 11 11:22:14 proxmox systemd[1]: Started cron.service - Regular background program processing daemon.
Sep 11 11:22:14 proxmox cron[84070]: (CRON) INFO (pidfile fd = 3)
Sep 11 11:22:14 proxmox cron[84070]: (CRON) INFO (Skipping @reboot jobs -- not system startup)
Sep 11 11:23:42 proxmox systemd[1]: Stopping cron.service - Regular background program processing daemon...
Sep 11 11:23:42 proxmox systemd[1]: cron.service: Deactivated successfully.
Sep 11 11:23:42 proxmox systemd[1]: Stopped cron.service - Regular background program processing daemon.
Sep 11 11:23:42 proxmox systemd[1]: Started cron.service - Regular background program processing daemon.
Sep 11 11:23:42 proxmox cron[86094]: (CRON) INFO (pidfile fd = 3)
Sep 11 11:23:42 proxmox cron[86094]: (CRON) INFO (Skipping @reboot jobs -- not system startup)
Sep 11 11:24:01 proxmox cron[86094]: (root) RELOAD (crontabs/root)
Sep 11 11:25:01 proxmox CRON[88939]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=0)
Sep 11 11:25:01 proxmox CRON[88939]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
Sep 11 11:27:01 proxmox cron[86094]: (root) RELOAD (crontabs/root)
Sep 11 11:27:01 proxmox CRON[93390]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=0)
Sep 11 11:27:01 proxmox CRON[93390]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root

 

[UdoB]

nightly cronjob

This:

27 11 * * *

...means 27 minutes after 11 a.m. ;-)

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Edit: okay, you probably put that in there just for testing. Sorry, no further help...