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Modifying crontab and enabling the deamon
- Become root
sudo -i
- Edit /etc/crontab
nano /etc/crontab
- Restart the cron deamon by typing:
synoservice -restart crond
Note: After a shutdown or reboot, you’ll need to restart the cron deamon to enable it again.
Running tasks using a different user account
If you want to run a task under a different user than root you can do the following:
#min hour mday month wday who command 30 0,6,12,18 * * * root /bin/su -c "/var/services/homes/myuser/apps/flexget.sh" myuser |
The task above will run a flexget script under the username myuser ever 4 hours.
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Hi, I’m interested about running a cronjob with a different user than root. I was wondering if my code below needs any “escape” characters?
I know have have many double quotes, so maybe that’s why it is not running.
*/15 * * * * root /bin/su -c “filebot -rename -r -extract /volume1/download/tmp/ –output “/volume1/Video/TV Shows” –format “{n}/Season {s}/{n} {sxe} {t}” –db TheTVDB -non-strict” user1
Here’s my issue:
I have a cronjob to move completed files to a different directory, but when it moves them it creates a directory under the “owner 0” (aka root). This is not good, cuz I cannot see the files in my media player on my TV :(. They must be under a user I have.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
01 Sep 2013 |
Use a cron job with the chown command to change the ownership of the produced files. Alternately use chmod to allow you to read those files (chmod 644)
30 May 2015 |
What can cron do that tte Synology Task Scheduler can’t? The Synology Task Scheduler also handles some other task, like mailing errors.
14 Feb 2021 |