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    pm2 doesnt work with crontab

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      sdetweil @keineAhnung123
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      @keineahnung123 nvm

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        Assassins @keineAhnung123
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        @keineahnung123
        Hello, i Can send you a script om monday, where you make backup to a small .img and where is restart you MagicMirror on the same time.

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          plainbroke @Assassins
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          @Assassins
          I would like to see this script. Please.

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            plainbroke
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            This is all I use in my crontab -e
            15 07 * * * pm2 start mm
            30 21 * * * pm2 stop all
            Shuts MM down at 9:30 pm
            Starts MM backup at 7:15 am
            EVERYDAY.
            I have a Black background color and the bar at the bottom using black background which makes it look like the screen is off basically.
            That way it doesn’t flood the room with light at night.
            Also less read / writes to the ssd drive I use for my MM.

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

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                  plainbroke @sdetweil
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                  @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?

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                    sdetweil @plainbroke
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                    @plainbroke no. what fo the pm2 logs show?

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

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                      karsten13 @plainbroke
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                      @plainbroke

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

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