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Why is my cronjob not properly calling commands within .sh scripts?

I'm having an issue with cronjobs in Ubuntu where its calling some commands and not others

cronjob

30 * * * * /bin/bash /home/path/script/start.sh >> /tmp/test.txt

start.sh

#!/bin/bash

cd /home/path/script

echo "Its working"

/usr/bin/git fetch
/usr/bin/git pull origin

echo "git"

/usr/bin/python3 /home/path/script/main.py &

echo "end"

/var/log/syslog

CRON[362212]: (ubuntu) CMD (/bin/bash /home/path/script/start.sh >> /tmp/test.txt)

test.txt

Its working
Updating n83aw46..215iebd
git
end

When I git log it still shows the previous git commit and when I run ps -ef | grep .py nothing shows up.

I have confirmed cron daemon is running. ps -ef command also works with my test python script. I've also verified that both the main.py and start.sh files has chmod +x

Solution

  • @Philippe Your suggestion of adding another err log ... >> /tmp/test.txt 2> /tmp/test.err helped me resolve the issue.

    There was a conflict with local changes and git pull. So I had to stash, pull then re-apply the stash.