Cron task not running

Question

i've configure a cron task for running a NodeJS script everyday.

crontab -l

But my script is never executed (the script write data on a file, and the last modification time of this file is never updated.) When I run the script manually, it's working.

I've no idea why it's not working

Answer 1

Try putting the full path of your node binary. If you can't find it run the following:

whereis node

That should give you something like:

/usr/bin/node

In this example, your crontab line would look like this:

55 23 * * * /usr/bin/node /getGames/

Also be wary that this will differ depending on how you installed node.