Cron job won't run!
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I am trying to get Cron to run some bash script every day at 00:15 and 12:15 on a pfSense (2.4.4 p3) router with the settings shown below:
However, the job will not run. But if I define the same job as two separate entries, it will:
What am I doing wrong?
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remove the space between the , and 12
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@RonpfS said in Cron job won't run!:
remove the space between the , and 12
I did and it worked. But I wonder why.
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Space isn't a digit
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?crontab(5) -
Yes of course! How could I miss that! Cron treats every whitespace character as delimiter to separate minutes from hours and so on and thus flags the line as faulty and silently discards it. But I believe pfSense should issue a warning then the user forgets that fact, don't you think?
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You don't see anythings in the systems logs ?
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No, nothing concerning the said Cron job.
