Crontab to Restart Magic Mirror does not work

sdetweil

@desert-rat PM2 is not the command

pm2 is the command and start is the parm

all lower case

evroom

Could you please show the crontab ?

$ crontab -l

To get rid of this:

(CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output)

you have to add >/dev/null 2>&1

Try:

44 * * * * /usr/local/bin/pm2 start MagicMirror >/dev/null 2>&1

Desert Rat

Problem resolved! Outstanding.

My thanks to all who responded.

My mission now is to research the provided solution and try to understand why it worked. Clearly the devil is in the details.

Thanks again to all of you

sdetweil

to understand why it worked.

your crontab entry

44 * * * * PM2 restart MagicMirror

the working crontab entry

44 * * * * /usr/local/bin/pm2 start MagicMirror >/dev/null 2>&1

could be restart as well…

simple, two things

cron runs as root, BUT certain folders are not in the path
so you need to specify the path to the command

 /usr/local/bin/

second the command is pm2, you tried PM2
in linux EVERYTHING is case sensitive

so yours is command not found, cause there is no command named PM2

Desert Rat

@sdetweil Thanks Sam! I clearly need some education. Do you have a favorite set of training documentation for newbies

Desert Rat

sdetweil

@desert-rat sorry. no idea. my info is gathered over 20+ years

there are online linux courses, but I don’t know where they start, or how deep they go, how fast.

I have a near photographic memory which is a blessing and a curse…