Cron: job starts but doesn't complete
- by Guandalino
I have a problem with a cron job which starts but doesn't complete. Running the command manually works fine. I already read the page about cron issues and solutions here on AskUbuntu, tried the proposed solutions but didn't find an answer working in my case.
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.
$ crontab -e
SHELL=/bin/bash # otherwise it would be /bin/sh
59 16 * * * /bin/duply calendar backup > /tmp/duply.log
Btw, the cron file ends with an empty line, as someone pointed out.
Once the job has "finished"...:
$ cat /tmp/duply.log
Start duply v1.5.7, time is 2012-06-22 16:59:01.
Instead, running manually the script it works correctly and gives this output:
Start duply v1.5.7, time is 2012-06-22 17:06:39.
[cut]
... here is a long output generated by duply.
... and yes, files have been backed up.
[cut]
--- Finished state OK at 17:06:42.581 - Runtime 00:00:03.170 ---
I also tried to restart the cron daemon (sudo service cron restart) but nothing changed.
Do you have any suggestion to fix the issue?
