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jaga3421
jaga3421

Reputation: 65

How to run a cron job in aws for node.js

I am trying to run a Cronjob in AWS (EC2). My crontab file looks like this 1 * * * * node /var/apps/project-name/file.js

This is supposed to trigger my file.js every 1 minute but it is not happening. Can someone help me where I am wrong?

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 2743

Answers (1)

Grynets
Grynets

Reputation: 2525

There is few options:

1. Your cron user (who executes cron) have no permissions on file
To fix this, you can add permissions to execute with this command sudo chmod 755 /var/apps/project-name/file.js

2. Cron user can't find node, so you need to specify full path.
To find your node.js on server, run which node and than add it to cron file
Like this: 0 * * * * /usr/bin/node /var/apps/project-name/file.js

Upvotes: 2

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