Launching flexget automatically

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I would like flexget to run automatically every hour. I have this command in my cron jobs, but it doesn’t actually seem to run:

@hourly /usr/local/bin/flexget --cron execute

Could anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks!

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Did you install cron?
Did you set the crontab via crontab -e?
What is journalctl -f saying at the top of the hour?

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Hi - thanks for these suggestions! Yes, I did install cron from the OSMC store. I tried journalctl - f but it didn’t show any flexget activity. service cron status did show me that the cron task had produced an error last time it tried to run:

Jul 15 23:00:01 vero CRON[21108]: (osmc) CMD (/usr/local/bin/flexget --cron execute)
Jul 15 23:00:03 vero CRON[21101]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output)

After a little experimentation, I think the issue may have been that I needed to set up the cron job as root using sudo crontab -e rather than crontab -e (for some reason I need to run flexget as root). I’ll need to wait a while to see whether it runs automatically now, but I think this may be the solution.

UPDATE: that wasn’t the solution, the process ran as root but produced a similar error

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Hi,

/usr/local/bin/flexget --cron execute

It seems cron is doing what is supposed to, it ran on the hour. No MTA, just means their is no mail server installed; so it can’t send notifications to the user.

try temporarily updating the cronjob:

@hourly /usr/local/bin/flexget --cron execute > /home/osmc/flexget.log 2>&1

Then check the log, to see whats happening with flexget after its run.

Thanks Tom.

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Thanks for this suggestion, Tom! Here’s the output:

2019-07-18 20:00 CRITICAL manager Failed to find configuration file config.yml 2019-07-18 20:00 INFO manager Tried to read from: /root, /root/.flexget, /root/.config/flexget Could not instantiate manager: No configuration file found.

I have my config file in the home directory, not root. Is there any way to specify where flexget should look for the config file in the cron job?

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Hi,

Does flexget need to run as root?

If not, make sure you are running crontab for osmc rather than root; so run:

crontab -e

rather than:

sudo crontab -e

If it needs to to be run as root, I would suggest copy the conf files or directory to /root.

Thanks Tom.

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I copied the config file to root, and as far as I can tell it worked! Thanks for the help!