Cron not working

[j4care-christianhahn]

Hi !

I'm trying to add an own cron for a daily summary mail but it doesn't getting executed by cron. I see that the cron process and supervisor are running but I don't get any output in /var/log/cron.log.

I also tried to setup a very simple check which doesn't do anything:

root@314fc2bee821:/etc/cron.d/icinga# cat /etc/cron.d/icinga/test 
* * * * * root echo "cron works: $(date)" >> /tmp/cron_test.log

does anyone have an idea what could be wrong with cron or what I could do to fix it ?

[jjethwa]

Hi @j4care-christianhahn

Thanks for creating the issue. I've seen several recommendations to not use cron within a container and to set up the job on the host server for better management. So you would execute the command starting with docker exec. Can you try that and let me know?

[j4care-christianhahn]

that is working but I wanted to let it run in the container. I added now supercronic for that and that seems to work

[jjethwa]

Thanks, @j4care-christianhahn

I'll check it out!