Re: mbsync not running with cron

[Robert N. <rob...@he...>]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 01:15:23AM +0000, david wen riccardi-zhu wrote:
> I'm trying to get mbsync to run every minute via cron.
> 
> I have the following line in my crontab:
> * * * * * mbsync -qqa >/dev/null 2>&1
> 
> Running mbsync manually works, but nothing seems to be happening via
> cron.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> This is on an Ubuntu Server.
> 
> This is also my first attempt at using cron -- not sure if I'm missing
> anything obvious.
> 
> I did run a test for the environment, and cron seems to be using my
> user, but sh instead of bash.
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated!
> 
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Hi David, or do you prefer dwrz?,

I have found often, that the environment that cron runs does not use
the same path as my login. You could try to see where mbsync is
located (which mbsync) and use the full path.

If that doesn't work, turn on the output of the cron job so you get a
local mail with any errors the command generates i.e. remove the
">/dev/null" part.

Regards,

Robert

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