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[FastAPI] Cron jobs failing to run

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Description

Cron jobs for the commands in docker/config/aurweb-cron aren't running due to errors in the Cron file. The issue appears to be due to a missing user argument before the bash declaration.

Reproduction

Start a new container with the Cron file set at /etc/cron.d/aurweb-cron, followed by running crond -nx proc.

On a side note, I think using the -x proc flags with crond would be beneficial, as otherwise this error just silently goes by without notice in server logs.

Logs

Logs for the container with the -x proc change shows the following:

log_it: (bash xxxxxx) ERROR (getpwnam() failed - user unknown)

Adding root before the bash declaration appears to fix the issue (solution was taken from an IBM article):

* * * * * root bash -c 'aurweb-mkpkglists --extended && echo "[$(date -u)] executed mkpkglists" >> /var/log/mkpkglists.log'

Version(s)

MPR: https://github.com/makedeb/mprweb/commit/1300b0b10a3b11f48fc9897e2db42923483096b4

Edited by Hunter Wittenborn
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