[SOLVED] Crontab problem

[nightshadow]

Hello there,

My entry in crontab won't work at all.

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[nightshadow@localhost ~]$ crontab -l
@reboot /home/nightshadow/conky.sh


But nothing happens when I reboot.Everything works fine if I use time, and not @reboot.
But with @reboot, it just won't work.
File conky.sh exists, and has +x permission.I can run it with ./conky.sh from cli, and it works.
What could be the problem ?

Regards,
Darko.

[Ken-Bergen]

If conditions do not yet exist for what your script does it will fail.
So what does your script do?

[ITA84]

The script is located inside your home directory, so maybe Cron tries to run it before /home is mounted (I've read someone had the same problem with an encrypted /home). See if it works when moved somewhere else (say, /usr/local/bin).

[nightshadow]

If conditions do not yet exist for what your script does it will fail.
So what does your script do?

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[nightshadow@localhost ~]$ cat /usr/local/bin/conky.sh
#!/bin/bash
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
export DISPLAY=:0.0
/usr/bin/conky
[nightshadow@localhost ~]$

The script is located inside your home directory, so maybe Cron tries to run it before /home is mounted (I've read someone had the same problem with an encrypted /home). See if it works when moved somewhere else (say, /usr/local/bin).

Tried it now, didn't work.

[doktor5000]

Why not put it into /etc/X11/xinit.d/ as with a cronjob it's probably racy, as you don't check if the X server is already running.

[nightshadow]

That works.Thanks.

[doktor5000]

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [SOLVED], thanks