# Curator crontab not running **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 25, 2018, 9:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-crontab-not-running/141530 "2018-07-25T09:03:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![babydoll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f475e1/32.png) [@babydoll](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/babydoll)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2018, 9:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-crontab-not-running/141530/1 "2018-07-25T09:03:04Z")
Hello. I'm running elasticsearch curator on Ubuntu. So my curator works: `curator --config /home/xen/curator/curator.yml /home/xen/curator/rollover.yml` and executing the curator creates a new index as I expected. I want to make this run every minute, so I executed crontab -e and added the following line: `* * * * * xen curator --config /home/xen/curator/curator.yml /home/xen/curator/rollover.yml` (xen is my username) This doesn't work, therefore I tried restarting crontab using service cron restart and removing my username from the crontab -e file. Unfortunately it still doesn't work ☹ Here's the syslog line I got by running grep CRON /var/log/syslog: ``` Jul 25 08:17:01 ubuntu CRON[15144]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly) Binary file /var/log/syslog matches ``` Thanks in advance! ---
**Author:** ![akhileshsingh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@akhileshsingh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/akhileshsingh)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2018, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-crontab-not-running/141530/2 "2018-07-25T09:50:18Z")
@babydoll Hope i can help you but i need some information. 1. Which python version you were using 2. Which environment you were using. please use the below link also to resolve the crontab problem. [http://click.pocoo.org/5/python3/](http://click.pocoo.org/5/python3/) click will prematurely end promote execution since Python 3 was designed to utilize ASCII as encoding for nature. This framework underpins the C.UTF-8 district which is prescribed. You may have the capacity to determine your issue by sending out the following condition factors: export LC\_ALL=C.UTF-8 export LANG=C.UTF-8 And adding to crontab: > LC\_ALL=C.UTF-8 > LANG=C.UTF-8 Before the curator execution and after that restart cron service. hope the above step will help you. Thanks 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![babydoll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f475e1/32.png) [@babydoll](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/babydoll)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 12:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-crontab-not-running/141530/3 "2018-07-26T00:04:24Z")
Hello @akhileshsingh ! I'm using python 2.7.12 on Ubuntu! ---
**Author:** ![akhileshsingh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@akhileshsingh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/akhileshsingh)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 8:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-crontab-not-running/141530/4 "2018-07-26T08:16:16Z")
> [@babydoll](#): > > Hello @akhileshsingh ! I'm using python 2.7.12 on Ubuntu! In order to further debug your issue, you need to perform below steps: ` 1. Share the output for crontab -l command and the user used to set the crontab.` `2. After step-1, Set the below crontab entry. This will redirect the exact crontab error in /var/log/syslog with xensu as a tag. Share the logging with xensu tag for further investigation:` ``` * * * * * curator --config /home/xen/curator/curator.yml /home/xen/curator/rollover.yml 2>&1 | /usr/bin/logger -t xensu ``` `3. Also, please validate the file permissions for curator.yml and rollover.yml.` Thanks ---
**Author:** ![babydoll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f475e1/32.png) [@babydoll](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/babydoll)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 8:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-crontab-not-running/141530/5 "2018-07-26T08:56:12Z")
@akhileshsingh Thank you so much for your help! Here are the results: 1. ``` crontab -l command output with user xen: # Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron. # # Each task to run has to be defined through a single line # indicating with different fields when the task will be run # and what command to run for the task # # To define the time you can provide concrete values for # minute (m), hour (h), day of month (dom), month (mon), # and day of week (dow) or use '*' in these fields (for 'any').# # Notice that tasks will be started based on the cron's system # daemon's notion of time and timezones. # # Output of the crontab jobs (including errors) is sent through # email to the user the crontab file belongs to (unless redirected). # # For example, you can run a backup of all your user accounts # at 5 a.m every week with: # 0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/ # # For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8) # # m h dom mon dow command * * * * * curator --config /home/xen/curator/curator.yml /home/xen/curator/rollover.yml ``` 2. Log output with xensu: Jul 26 17:34:01 ubuntu CRON[17739]: (xen) CMD (curator --config /home/xen/curator/curator.yml /home/xen/curator/rollover.yml 2\>&1 | /usr/bin/logger -t xensu) Jul 26 17:34:01 ubuntu xensu: /bin/sh: 1: curator: not found 1. File permissions: Read and write for owner, group and others and execute allowed for both yml files ---
**Author:** ![akhileshsingh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@akhileshsingh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/akhileshsingh)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 10:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-crontab-not-running/141530/6 "2018-07-26T10:41:49Z")
@babydoll I want to know how you have installed curator on your system either by using pip, source code or any other process. > [@babydoll](#): > > curator: not found It looks like that crontab is unable to find the binary of the curator. So i request you to take output of the below commands and post it here for better understanding of your problem. to find the binary of the curator run the below command. > whereis curator And use the output of the above command instead of curator and set the crontab entry. for example: ``` * * * * * /usr/bin/curator --config /home/xen/curator/curator.yml /home/xen/curator/rollover.yml 2>&1 | /usr/bin/logger -t xensu ``` Thanks:) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 10:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-crontab-not-running/141530/7 "2018-08-23T10:42:27Z")
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