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