Help with Crontab starting pm2 mm.sh

DDE12

I am using Rasp Pi Bookworm on a Libre Sweet Potato.
In my user Crontab:
29 14 * * * pm2 start mm.sh >/dev/null >2&1

sweetpotatopi:~ $ sudo systemctl status cron
● cron.service - Regular background program processing daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cron.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Mon 2025-02-03 14:27:37 EST; 1min 55s ago
       Docs: man:cron(8)
   Main PID: 2402 (cron)
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 1986)
     Memory: 368.0K
        CPU: 165ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/cron.service
             └─2402 /usr/sbin/cron -f

Feb 03 14:27:37 sweetpotatopi systemd[1]: Started cron.service - Regular background program processing daemon.
Feb 03 14:27:37 sweetpotatopi cron[2402]: (CRON) INFO (pidfile fd = 3)
Feb 03 14:27:37 sweetpotatopi cron[2402]: (CRON) INFO (Skipping @reboot jobs -- not system startup)
Feb 03 14:29:01 sweetpotatopi CRON[2409]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user user(uid=1000) by (uid=0)
Feb 03 14:29:01 sweetpotatopi CRON[2410]: (user) CMD (pm2 start mm.sh >/dev/null >2&1)
Feb 03 14:29:01 sweetpotatopi CRON[2409]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user user

But, the mirror is not starting.

~ $ pm2 show mm
 Describing process with id 0 - name mm 
┌───────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────┐
│ status            │ stopped                            │
│ name              │ mm                                 │
│ namespace         │ default                            │
│ version           │ N/A                                │
│ restarts          │ 0                                  │
│ uptime            │ 0                                  │
│ script path       │ /home/user/mm.sh                  │
│ script args       │ N/A                                │
│ error log path    │ /home/user/.pm2/logs/mm-error.log │
│ out log path      │ /home/user/.pm2/logs/mm-out.log   │
│ pid path          │ /home/user/.pm2/pids/mm-0.pid     │
│ interpreter       │ bash                               │
│ interpreter args  │ N/A                                │
│ script id         │ 0                                  │
│ exec cwd          │ /home/user                        │
│ exec mode         │ fork_mode                          │
│ node.js version   │ N/A                                │
│ node env          │ N/A                                │
│ watch & reload    │ ✘                                  │
│ unstable restarts │ 0                                  │
│ created at        │ 2025-01-30T12:31:59.717Z           │
└───────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────┘
 Divergent env variables from local env 
┌────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┐
│ _LXSESSION_PID │ 1234                             │
│ SSH_AUTH_SOCK  │ /tmp/ssh-rK5CMznThwsE/agent.1234 │
│ SSH_AGENT_PID  │ 1326                             │
└────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────┘

What do I have wrong? Thank you for taking a look at this.

DDE12

@sdetweil That was the solution. Thank you!

29 14 * * * /usr/local/bin/pm2 start mm.sh >/dev/null >2&1

sdetweil

@DDE12 anotgeruser had trouble, turned out he needed the full path to pm2

which pm2

Should give you that path

DDE12

@sdetweil That was the solution. Thank you!

29 14 * * * /usr/local/bin/pm2 start mm.sh >/dev/null >2&1

sdetweil

@DDE12 and you don’t need start mm.sh

After you’ve done it once

pm2 status

Will show the apps

Name and row number

You can use name or row number

DDE12

Now I have

PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
00 7 * * * pm2 start mm >/dev/null 2>&1

sdetweil

@DDE12 awesome!!

i learned recently that

&> xxx

is the same as >xxx 2>&1

DDE12

@sdetweil Like so

PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
00 7 * * * pm2 start mm &>/dev/null

sdetweil

@DDE12 yes