I am on Ubuntu 14.04 (using Digital Ocean) trying run a script as root. It's a script to check if a server is running and restart if it has crashed.
The issue isn't the script, but crontab won't run the script.
sudo crontab -e
#!/bin/bash SHELL=/bin/bash * * * * * /bin/bash /root/launch.sh #newline -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 845 Nov 23 06:21 launch.sh
Not sure what I'm doing incorrectly, other posts about crontabs have shown similar answers to this one.
11 Answer
I found an answer to my problem.
I added my bash commands to /etc/crontab and added the root field instead of using sudo crontab -e
SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin # m h dom mon dow user command 17 * * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly 25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily ) 47 6 * * 7 root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly ) 52 6 1 * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly ) * * * * * root bash /root/launch.sh 
