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It is always a struggle configuring a cronjob to run certain scripts; there is always a mis configuration, a PATH, an environment variable that is different from when you use it in interactive mode, etc.. Do you have any tricks to avoid or minimize those issues?

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[–] thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Wrap all the cron job tasks in a bash script and make sure it works. Call the script directly in the cron configuration. Dump the output of the cronjob to a logfile. Set it up to run every minute so you can ensure it works via the cron environment.