I’m using @reboot ~/www/example.com/bin/server in my user’s crontab…but when I reboot the server, the web server (this script) does not come up. (script works fine from command line).
My guess is the /home/user directory has not been mounted yet…does anyone know if its possible to get a script to run out of a home directory using this crontab @reboot method?
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Answer
My problem was that the crontab did not have a full environment. I made the script it was pointing to source my .bashrc.
@reboot /home/user/www/example.com/bin/server
./server does . /home/user/.bashrc to get a working environment.