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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, e (social.graves.cl)

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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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[–] lupec@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I basically combine a few mechanisms to mitigate that:

Having cron call scripts deployed to a fixed location I can manually test or use on demand as needed
Piping each script's output/exit code to healtchecks.io so I can get feedback notifications when/if they fail
Using Ansible to deploy everything so it's all repeatable and version controlled