On 09/09/2020 12:15, Keith Edmunds wrote: > On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 09:44:44 +0100, hamis...@live.co.uk said: > >> so has anyone experienced cron jobs sporadically (kind of randomly) not >> running when they're meant to? > No, never (and I've been using Linux since the early 90s, and UNIX before > that). > > Set up your cron jobs so that the command is: > > [...] your-command 2>&1 | /usr/bin/logger -t 'my cronjob' > > Then take a look in your syslog files after the cron job has apparently > not run. > > Linux Tips: https://www.tiger-computing.co.uk/category/techtips/
Turns out cron is fine on the pi, the problem is my system time not syncing for some unknown reason. The joys of debugging... Hamish
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