pucherot
Feature Request: Move cron to cron.d directory
I have installed pihole and this on a mini pc i use as a basic home server. This is running ubuntu, so no a pi distro.
Only issue I have encountered is that the cron is installed in the user's crontab, but the scripts usesd relies on sudo. sudo asks for a password prompt so doesnt work for the user on my server
I moved the crons to /etc/cron.d/pialert in the global cron format (sets user to run against) e.g:
PIALERT_HOME="/home/user"
0 3 * * 1 root python3 ${PIALERT_HOME}/pialert/back/pialert.py update_vendors >${PIALERT_HOME}/pialert/log/pialert.vendors.log 2>&1
I was about to create the same issue. After installation cron jobs created in current user's cron and executed as installation user, however arp_scan requires "sudo" to run per code below:
arpscan_args = ['sudo', 'arp-scan', '--localnet', '--ignoredups', '--retry=' + str(pRetries)]
As a result jobs failing with permission denied which indicated in log file. I had to move jobs to root cron ("sudo crontab -e") in order for them to run.
