pm2 doesnt work with crontab

[plainbroke]

@sdetweil
My old crontab does not work in debian 12 aka bookworm
Is there something i need to add to it to get it to work again?
Really liked how it worked and the fact that I was getting a fresh restart of mm every morning…

15 07 * * * pm2 start mm
30 21 * * * pm2 stop all

Tried this too.

15 07 * * * pi  pm2 start mm
30 21 * * * pi  pm2 stop all

[sdetweil]

@plainbroke what userid did the pm2 jobs get created under?

[plainbroke]

@sdetweil
pi is my user. I know not very original or safe but it is on a closed network.
that is why I tried the pi user in the crontab.
and it shows up when I do crontab -l.
So I think it is setup under pi correctly.
Do I need to do it as root sudo crontab -e and use pi or root as the user?

[sdetweil]

@plainbroke no. what fo the pm2 logs show?

pm2 logs --lines=xxx
xxx is number of most recent lines, default 15

[karsten13]

@plainbroke

you can do cron restart with pm2 too, see https://pm2.keymetrics.io/docs/usage/restart-strategies/

[plainbroke]

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[sdetweil]

@plainbroke i mean after cron trying to start
pm2

set a cron entry for an hour from now stop MagicMirror and flush the logs

pm2 stop all
pm2 flush

see what the logs say then

[sdetweil]

@karsten13 yes, but he wants stop and start

[plainbroke]

@sdetweil
Got ya, I miss understood before.
Running and waiting for results now…

Finally got results useing the proper path.
@sdetweil
You can mark this resolved.

[sdetweil]

@plainbroke how long til it might trigger?