crontab does not perform network check

[cpfeil]

Hi,

I have installed two crontabs:

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* * * * * /usr/bin/checknetwork

* * * * * /usr/bin/gpio-test2.py

The second line is a python script to control my piface. It works well and is executed every minute!

But the first line is not executed at all. If i call the checknetwork skript directly, it reconnects if wlan0 has no IP address. But the execution using crontab does not work.

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echo "Performing Network check for wlan0"

if ifconfig wlan0 | grep -q "inet Adresse:" ; then
    echo "Network is Okay"
else
    echo "Network connection down! Attempting reconnection."
    ifdown wlan0
    sleep 5
    ifup --force wlan0
    ifconfig wlan0 | grep "inet Adresse:"
fi

echo "Current Setting:" + ifconfig wlan0 | grep "inet Adresse:"


exit 0

Any ideas?

Christian

[sander2]

Whose crontab is this: pi, or sudo's?

So, what is the output of:

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sudo crontab -l

[Richard-TX]

I would not execute a script every minute. I have seen cron kill a system before when a script was run every minute.


I would also add a hash bang.

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#!/usr/bin/python
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[cpfeil]

Whose crontab is this: pi, or sudo's?

So, what is the output of:

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sudo crontab -l

Hi,

the output is:

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root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# sudo crontab -l
# Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron.
#
# Each task to run has to be defined through a single line
# indicating with different fields when the task will be run
# and what command to run for the task
#
# To define the time you can provide concrete values for
# minute (m), hour (h), day of month (dom), month (mon),
# and day of week (dow) or use '*' in these fields (for 'any').#
# Notice that tasks will be started based on the cron's system
# daemon's notion of time and timezones.
#
# Output of the crontab jobs (including errors) is sent through
# email to the user the crontab file belongs to (unless redirected).
#
# For example, you can run a backup of all your user accounts
# at 5 a.m every week with:
# 0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/
#
# For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8)
#
# m h  dom mon dow   command

5 * * * * /usr/bin/checknetwork

@reboot /usr/bin/gpio-test2.py

I changed the python script from Running every minute.

checknetwork is not executed every three minutes.

What is wrong?

Christian

[RaTTuS]

5 * * * * /usr/bin/checknetwork

means 5 past the hour

*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/checknetwork
means every 5 mins

[hk1963]

So this is root's crontab.

You may also add something like

*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/checknetwork >>/var/log/checknetwork.log 2>&1

to the entry so any output of the script is written into some file you can check for messages.

Also keep in mind that when run by cron, the command has most environment variables not available, so maybe some commands in the script are not in the path and fail to get run.

[cpfeil]

Hi,

thank you, this was a very helpful comment!

The log says the following:

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/usr/bin/checknetwork: 7: /usr/bin/checknetwork: ifdown: not found
/usr/bin/checknetwork: 9: /usr/bin/checknetwork: ifup: not found
/usr/bin/checknetwork: 10: /usr/bin/checknetwork: ifconfig: not found

So it does not know the commands. Why? Any ideas?

regards,
Christian

[cpfeil]

Hi,

I think i fixed the problem on my own.
The full path to ifconfig etc. was missing. I added three aliases and now it seems to work.

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alias ifup='/sbin/ifup'
alias ifdown='/sbin/ifdown'
alias ifconfig='/sbin/ifconfig'

echo "Performing Network check for wlan0";

if ifconfig wlan0 | grep -q "inet Adresse:" ; then
    echo "Network is Okay"
else
    echo "Network connection down! Attempting reconnection."
    ifdown wlan0
    sleep 5
    ifup --force wlan0
    ifconfig wlan0 | grep "inet Adresse:"
fi

echo "Current Setting:" + ifconfig wlan0 | grep "inet Adresse:"


exit 0

Thank you all for your help!

Christian