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I am currently trying to set up a cronjob that will start a node.js server whenever that server is down.

For that purpose, I have written a simple script to test and start the node server.

#!/bin/bash

ts=$(date +%T)

if pgrep -f "node"
then
 echo $ts": node running"
else
 echo $ts": node not running"
 '/usr/bin/node' '/home/pi/project/serveronly/index.js' > '/home/pi/project/node.log'
fi

The corresponding crontab is:

m h dom mon dow command
* * * * * /home/pi/project/sanity_check.sh >> /home/pi/project/cron.log 2&>1

my logging shows the following:
If I simply start the script it will start the server and log the node.js output properly.

For the script started by cron it looks this way:
If an instance of node.js is currently running it will detect that and log accordingly.
If none is detected it will log into cron.log properly, but it will log nothing into node.log and it will not start a server.

1. You're not providing the full path to /home/pi/project/serveronly/index.js -- you're missing the initial forward-slash, so the node program is failing to find your script.




2. the command is successfully overwriting a file under your home directory, home/pi/project/node.log; presumably that's what you meant with project.log. If you want to append to that log, use two greater-than signs, not one.

I would use this, instead:

/usr/bin/node /home/pi/project/serveronly/index.js >> /home/pi/project/node.log