cron job

[Xander2024]

I set up the cron job as it says there (https://www.unrealircd.org/docs/Cron_job) but unfortunately it doesn't work.

*/5 * * * * /home/xxxx/xxxxx/unrealircd croncheck
@reboot /home/xxxxx/xxxx/unrealircd start croncheck
MAILTO=[email protected]

or

*/5 * * * * /home/xxxx/xxxxxx/unrealircd croncheck
@reboot /home/xxxx/xxxxxx/unrealircd croncheck
MAILTO=[email protected]

[Valware]

The second one there looks correct. In what way do you mean it doesn't work? Did your server crash? Are you testing it and there was nothing after 5 minutes or reboot? Please explain further

[Valware]

Actually I think it may be slightly wrong.

It should be

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/home/user/unrealircd/unrealircd croncheck

It seems like you may have

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 /home/user/some_directory/unrealircd croncheck

so you should have

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/home/user/some_directory/unrealircd/unrealircd croncheck

For clarity, you must run the "unrealircd" script which is inside the "unrealircd" directory, so you just gotta call that instead of calling the directory itself

[Xander2024]

Does not start after rebooting the server after 5 minutes. No matter whether /home/xxxx/xxxxx/unrealircd croncheck or /home/xxxx/xxxxxx/unrealircd start croncheck

If I run it manually, the cron starts, but not automatically.
It works manually via ./unrealircd croncheck

[Valware]

I don't know what your xxxxx's mean and it would be easier to understand if you used obscure names like /some_directory/.

I'm sure you need to have this:

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/home/xxxx/xxxxx/unrealircd/unrealircd croncheck
instead of what you have which is
/home/xxxx/xxxxx/unrealircd croncheck

I believe you are missing an "/unrealircd"

It's my understanding that you are trying to call the "unrealircd" directory instead of the "unrealircd" file which is inside the "unrealircd" directory ;D

[Xander2024]

sorry about the incomprehensible directory with xxx .
home/user/ircd/unrealircd croncheck.

ircd is the name of the folder unrealircd

hope it's better now

[Valware]

indeed, it needs an extra /unrealircd on the end of it, like so:

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/home/user/ircd/unrealircd/unrealircd

[PeGaSuS]

indeed, it needs an extra /unrealircd on the end of it, like so:

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/home/user/ircd/unrealircd/unrealircd

There seems to be some miscommunication here.
We need to know the folder where the executable is placed.

During UnrealIRCd compilation, after the ./Config command, this question will appear:

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In what directory do you want to install UnrealIRCd?
(Note: UnrealIRCd 6 will need to be installed somewhere.
 If this directory does not exist it will be created.)
[/home/USER/unrealircd] ->

If we put /home/USER/ircd then the cronjob will need to be something like:

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*/5 * * * * /home/USER/ircd/unrealircd croncheck

If we put /home/USER/ircd/unrealircd then the cronjob will need to be something like:

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*/5 * * * * /home/USER/ircd/unrealircd/unrealircd croncheck

Now, we only need to know how UnrealIRCd was installed.
Because, if the folder was renamed after UnrealIRCd has been installed, this has harmful consequences.

My case:
I answered /home/USER/ircdz and my cronjob is set as the following:

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*/5 * * * * /home/USER/ircdz/unrealircd croncheck

So far, it works as expected. Can't test the reboot because I don't want to restart my computer

[Xander2024]

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In what directory do you want to install UnrealIRCd?
(Note: UnrealIRCd 6 will need to be installed somewhere.
 If this directory does not exist it will be created.)
[/home/USER/unrealircd] ->

My installation path:

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[/home/USER/unrealircd] ->/home/user/ircd

No idea if this is a mistake or something.

if I run the following in the ircd folder manuell:
./unrealircd croncheck
with the following entries in the cronjob

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/home/user/ircd/unrealircd/unrealircd croncheck
or
/home/user/ircd/unrealircd croncheck

Starts Unrealircd

[PeGaSuS]

/home/user/ircd/unrealircd/unrealircd croncheck
or
/home/user/ircd/unrealircd croncheck

For your installation, your crontab must be:

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*/5 * * * * /home/USER/ircd/unrealircd croncheck

(replace USER with your shell username, obviously)

Are you saving the crontab properly?
Are you saving the crontab as the user running UnrealIRCd?
There's no # at the beginning of the line?

[Xander2024]

Am I wrong? You can only call crontab -e with root, right? If I'm wrong, then thanks for the improvement.

Even if it's not relevant to the topic, I'm very surprised and pleased with the new functions you've integrated. Keep up the good work.

[PeGaSuS]

Am I wrong? You can only call crontab -e with root, right? If I'm wrong, then thanks for the improvement.

Even if it's not relevant to the topic, I'm very surprised and pleased with the new functions you've integrated. Keep up the good work.

Yes, you're wrong. You should use crontab -e as the user running UnrealIRCd.
Otherwise you may mess up files permissions.

[Xander2024]

Your last question about crontab was saved correctly. That was my mistake, and the last answer was wrong. I finally got to my goal. THX
Thanks to everyone who tried to help.

The MAILTO... function gets the domain name from the host or hostname file when sending emails?
The email thing would be great.