I need help with one of my cron jobs

Kerfuffle
1

I have this cron job that suppose to be running twice a week and it doesn’t:

0 10 * * 1,4 hyprctl -i 0 dispatch 'hl.dsp.exec_cmd("~/.config/MyScripts/allupdates.sh", { workspace = "2" }) >> ~/Documents/cronlog 2>&1'

I tried making simpler, like this one that is working:

0 9 * * 0 hyprctl -i 0 dispatch 'hl.dsp.exec_cmd("~/.config/MyScripts/backups.sh >> ~/Documents/cronlog 2>&1")'

Updates script works perfectly when executed from the shell.

Here is the updates script:

#!/bin/bash

# set -euo pipefail

upd () {
	
	notify-send -u normal -i /usr/share/icons/cachyos.svg "SCHEDULED SYSTEM UPDATE" "$1"
	kitty -e bash -c "$2" | bat -p
	wait $last_pid

}

upd "Updating AppImage packages..." 'am -u'
upd "Updating Flatpak packages..." 'flatpak update'
upd "Updating Pacman packages..." 'sudo pacman -Syu'
upd "Updating AUR packages..." 'paru -Sua'
upd "Removing orphaned packages..." "sudo pacman -Rns $(pacman -Qtdq)"
upd "Updating Hyprland plugins..." "hyprpm update"
upd "All updates are finished!"

Thank you for the help!

2

Go for

hyprctl eval ‘hl.dispatch(hl.dsp.exec_cmd(“your_executable_script”))’

3

I had to restart cron service and quit out of the crontab -e to get it to work. But it works!