Cron job not running? about plexupdate HOT 5 CLOSED

What distro and version are you running?

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Ubuntu 22 LTS

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Hmm, cron should be working by default on your setup, so that shouldn't be a factor. What's more puzzling is that /etc/plexupdate.cron.conf doesn't exist. The function that writes the file is the same one that writes out the Writing configuration file output from your log above, so if the file didn't get written there should be an error there but there isn't.

The only thing I can think of would be if you're using a strange chroot setup or something maybe? Or if your /usr/bin/tee has somehow been modified to not throw an error when it can't write to a file, but both of those are really out there.

Can you double-check to make sure that the file definitely isn't there? To be on the extra safe side, maybe try running:

find /etc -name plexupdate.cron.conf -ls

And see if it shows it anywhere in there? It's easy enough to manually create that file, but I'd really like to know what's failing before we go down that path since there could be a deeper issue here.

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Oh boy.. I ran the setup AFTER a reboot and it wrote the file. I have no idea why it didn't before. I'll go away now.

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No worries, glad you got it working.

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