With cron this is troublesome, because cron uses an environment different from what you get from the commandline. So things can work from the shell and not from cron.
So to really check that cron works you have to add a line to be called in 5 minutes, then check your mail to see what happened.
With systemd though, you can launch the service at any time and see what it does without all that fiddling.
With cron this is troublesome, because cron uses an environment different from what you get from the commandline. So things can work from the shell and not from cron.
So to really check that cron works you have to add a line to be called in 5 minutes, then check your mail to see what happened.
With systemd though, you can launch the service at any time and see what it does without all that fiddling.