Cron wont run

[bladecell]

Hello, after adding this mod to code-server image and adding the line */5 * * * * /bin/echo test >> /config/tmp.txt to config/crontabs/abs and restarting the container, I would expect the line to appear in file after running crontab -e in docker container, but it is not present. Furthermore no test is appended in /config/tmp.txt so the cron job did not run and other commands in abc file wont run either.

[aptalca]

you're likely checking the root user's crontab with that command, but the line is getting added to abc user's

Also, your file needs to be named abc, not abs

[bladecell]

My mistake, the file is named abc, not abs, I am checking crontab like this

crontab -l -u abc
# Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron.
# 
# Each task to run has to be defined through a single line
# indicating with different fields when the task will be run
# and what command to run for the task
# 
# To define the time you can provide concrete values for
# minute (m), hour (h), day of month (dom), month (mon),
# and day of week (dow) or use '*' in these fields (for 'any').
# 
# Notice that tasks will be started based on the cron's system
# daemon's notion of time and timezones.
# 
# Output of the crontab jobs (including errors) is sent through
# email to the user the crontab file belongs to (unless redirected).
# 
# For example, you can run a backup of all your user accounts
# at 5 a.m every week with:
# 0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/
# 
# For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8)
# 
# m h  dom mon dow   command

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[mindset-tk]

I'm also having this issue. I've tried adding it to both abc and root crontabs. Both crontabs list correctly when I run the crontab -lu abc and crontab -lu root. But the command never actually runs, unless I manually run crond or similar. I am using the lscr.io/linuxserver/qbittorrent:4.6.3 container.

edit: never mind, it seems to be working on the 4.6.3 container after deleting the image and redownloading.

[acondura]

True, I'm also having this problem. I have added DOCKER_MODS=linuxserver/mods:universal-cron to my docker-compose file, I'm using https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-code-server. I then added a test line in /config/crontabs/abc but nothing works.

The only way I could get it to work is to use a custom script (as outlined here https://www.linuxserver.io/blog/2019-09-14-customizing-our-containers) by adding a volume line like this:

• ./init:/custom-cont-init.d:ro

and then in my init/cron.sh file write this:

#!/bin/bash
cronjob="YOUR-COMMAND-GOES-HERE"
(crontab -u abc -l; echo "$cronjob" ) | crontab -u abc -

I hope this helps!

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