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Hi, I went through your logs and it seems like crontab is not installed on the host machine?

stderr: 'sh: 1: crontab: not found'

The tool uses the host crontab command via nsenter to manage cronjobs, so it only works if ran from hosts that leverage crontab to run cron jobs.

If that’s not the issue let me know and we can try and debug it together further, but looking at the logs it really seems like crontab is just not installed on your nas (guessing it’s a nas looking at the volume1 path)

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irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
crontab

Hmmmm…

systemctl status cron

● cron.service - Regular background program processing daemon Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cron.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Wed 2025-11-12 17:09:55 UTC; 1 day 2h ago Docs: man:cron(8) Main PID: 996 (cron) Tasks: 1 (limit: 47901) Memory: 358.5M CPU: 59.110s CGroup: /system.slice/cron.service └─996 /usr/sbin/cron -f -P

I’ll dick around with it some more. I don’t want to hammer you right in the middle of your promo.
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- fccview@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Meh, I want to make sure things work, that’s also part of the promo right? haha
  
  run which crontab for me? I can see cron is running but I still am not sure you have crontab installed on the host machine if that makes sense
  
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  - irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    which crontab
    
    Should’ve included that. My bad.
    
    ~# which crontab /usr/bin/crontab
    
    if that makes sense
    
    I’m always down to learn from those more knowledgeable than I.
    
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    fccview@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Oh wow, that definitely threw me off lol anyhow, I don’t think I am more knowledgeable than you at all, I just know the tool I built more, so I can help figure out the nuances of it…
    
    I have a feeling nsenter is not liking your nas for some reason, I wanna try a workaround and if it works for you I’ll go through the code and sort it out so we can use a proper env variable for this
    
    add this env variable for now and tell me if it sorts you out <3
    
    environment: - PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:$PATH
    
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