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Tomáš Pospíšek
Tomáš Pospíšek
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Are you sure cron is not working? If you add a line like

 */1 * * * * touch /tmp/foobar123

to your crontab, then does the file appear in /tmp?

If that file won't appear after a minute or so, then

ps auxw | grep cron

or

sudo service cron status

If cron is not running, then try to start it with

sudo service cron start

But I guess the problem with your command above is, that gsettings needs to have its environment set up correctly in order to run, which it probably does not have, when run from cron.

Are you sure cron is not working? If you add a line like

 */1 * * * touch /tmp/foobar123

to your crontab, then does the file appear in /tmp?

If that file won't appear after a minute or so, then

ps auxw | grep cron

or

sudo service cron status

If cron is not running, then try to start it with

sudo service cron start

But I guess the problem with your command above is, that gsettings needs to have its environment set up correctly in order to run, which it probably does not have, when run from cron.

Are you sure cron is not working? If you add a line like

 */1 * * * * touch /tmp/foobar123

to your crontab, then does the file appear in /tmp?

If that file won't appear after a minute or so, then

ps auxw | grep cron

or

sudo service cron status

If cron is not running, then try to start it with

sudo service cron start

But I guess the problem with your command above is, that gsettings needs to have its environment set up correctly in order to run, which it probably does not have, when run from cron.

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Tomáš Pospíšek
Tomáš Pospíšek
  • 494
  • 2
  • 10

Are you sure cron is not working? If you add a line like

 */1 * * * touch /tmp/foobar123

to your crontab, then does the file appear in /tmp?

If that file won't appear after a minute or so, then

ps auxw | grep cron

or

sudo service cron status

If cron is not running, then try to start it with

sudo service cron start

But I guess the problem with your command above is, that gsettings needs to have its environment set up correctly in order to run, which it probably does not have, when run from cron.