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    pm2 doesnt work with crontab

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    • plainbrokeP Offline
      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?

          Sam

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            plainbroke @sdetweil
            last edited by 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?

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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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                  plainbroke @sdetweil
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                    sdetweil @plainbroke
                    last edited by 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

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                      sdetweil @karsten13
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                      @karsten13 yes, but he wants stop and start

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                        plainbroke @sdetweil
                        last edited by 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.

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