Set a Cronjob for shell script

[izakis]

My YunoHost server

Hardware: computer
YunoHost version: 11.0.11
I have access to my server : Through direct access via keyboard / screen
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Hello,

There is anything on Yunohost that avoid a use of custom cronjobs?
i am trying to set a cronjob for a shell script i wrote to update my public ip,
the script chmod’s to be executed and chown for root, the cronjob is as root,
am i doing something wrong?
no matter what i am trying it will not run,

thank you

[tierce]

As far as I know, there is nothing to avoid the use of a cronjob.

Did you use crontab -e as root or create a cronfile in /etc/cron.d/ or something else ?

I prefer to create a file…

nano /etc/cron.d/democron

Put somethings like

* * * * * username command >> /var/log/democron.log 2>&1

And save it.

I found a nice cron for humans to help me define the schedules.

[izakis]

@tierce

Thank you very much your reply,
I did use several methods to create a cronjob due to the first one didn’t worked for me, which I don’t remember all of them now,

but finally till I will get any answer on the forum, i decided to delete all crons with a command and clear it all,

yes I just did try this again:
crontab -e (as root), and it doesn’t works,
I did make sure the shell file have a full chmod + ownership for root, and it can be executed by:
sed -i -e ‘s/\r$//’ scriptname.sh
and when i execute it manually its all good, does update the ip + writes the log,

now I tried your suggestion:
nano /etc/cron.d/democron

and its still doesn’t works
please take a look how it is look like:

I have tired also:
*/1 * * * * root /etc/eetsceeck/scripts/updateip.sh
and
1 * * * * /etc/eetsceeck/scripts/updateip.sh
and
1 * * * * root /etc/eetsceeck/scripts/updateip.sh

also I tried:
sudo /etc/init.d/updateip start

also I tired:
sudo service cron start

this is my script:

#       EXECUTE COMMAND BY CURL:
curl "https://ipv4.dynv6.com/api/update?ipv4=auto&ipv6=6to4&host=epnetwork.cf&token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&zone=epnetwork.cf"

#       PRINT MESSAGE:
echo 'Done Updating IP'


#       DEFINE VARIABLES:
#       SYNTAX HOUR-MINUTES-SECOND      MONTH - DAY - YEAR.
current_date_time="`date "+%H:%M:%S - %m.%d.%y"`";
my_current_public_ip="`curl "ipconfig.io"`";

#       PRINT MESSAGES:
echo 'Writes The log, Please Wait...'

printf "\n IP $my_current_public_ip Being Updated on: $current_date_time For Dynv6 (epnetwork.cf); " >> /etc/eetsceeck/scripts/updateip.log

echo 'Done Updating IP.'

#       END OF FILE.
################################################################
################################################################
################################################################
################################################################

once its executed its supposed to write a log onto /etc/eetsceeck/scripts/updateip.log
which looks like this:

as you see those lines been written while I executed the script manually,

I did try also:
/var/spool/cron/crontabs

I don’t know what to do or to try anymore,

[izakis]

i found the problem,

all these tutorials on the internet worth nothing.

the cron should run as usual with the dot at the beginning.
and without the */
the internet is full with crap.

that’s the right syntax:
1 * * * * ./etc/eetsceeck/scripts/updateip.sh