I am trying to run a node script with cron every minute. I dont believe it is running at all. When I run grep cron /var/log/syslog I dont see it running in the log.
Did I write the cron job wrong? If so how do I run a node script in a cron job?
* * * * * node /home/ubuntu/Server/nodeScript.js
Cron jobs don't run in a shell so you have to give the full path to the node binary.
/usr/bin/node (or whatever it is on that machine)
Try which node to find out
The easiest way to run it every single minute is just to put your code in endless loop with timeout.
For example
function yourCode () {
for {
// your code
timeout(60 * 1000)
}
}
function timeout(ms) {
return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
}
Just be sure you run it with pm2 or supervisor so when it crashes it can restart automatically.
