Run on cronjob

Posts: 3 · MarcoCruz 27 Dec 2023, 17:47

Hi,

I have install FreeFileSync_13.2 on RHEL 8.9.

Can you help on set it to run on crontab/cronjob every 10 minuts.

I have tried like this, but it do not work:
*/10 * * * * user /opt/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync /home/pacs/SyncSettings.ffs_batch

All the paths are ok.

If I run it on cmd like this "/opt/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync /home/pacs/SyncSettings.ffs_batch" it works.

Can you help.

Thanks.

Posts: 2615 · Plerry 28 Dec 2023, 08:11

Have you tried to follow the manual?

Posts: 3 · MarcoCruz 28 Dec 2023, 09:08

Hi,

Yes I have fallow the manual but for RHEL 8 it do not have gnome-scheduled.

Posts: 3 · MarcoCruz 28 Dec 2023, 10:32

The command : "/opt/FreeFileSync /path-to-config_file/config_file.ffs_batch" doesn't works on crontab, while it works when launched from terminal window.

It is very strange

Posts: 313 · bgstack15 28 Dec 2023, 13:10

You are probably missing the DISPLAY environment variable. See my old post.