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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.

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

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).

Ken-Bergen wrote: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 ~]$

ITA84 wrote: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.

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.

That works.Thanks.

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