NOAA-reports

[rogerthn]

cp -v /home/cumulus/CumulusMX/Reports/NOAAMO$(date --date="1 days ago" +%m%d).txt /var/www/NOAA-reports > /tmp/NOAA-reports.log 2>&1

No nothing is in /tmp/NOAA-reports.log it's like it doesn't execute in cron under user cumulus

but If I do it when I login as cumulus and put the command in without @daily it works but in the /tmp/NOAA-reports.log it's got weird characters in it as shown in the post previous.

Try

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crontab -e

as pi and add

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1 2 * * * cp -v /home/cumulus/CumulusMX/Reports/NOAAMO$(date --date="1 days ago" +%m%y).txt /var/www/NOAA-reports > /tmp/NOAA-reports.log 2>&1

This should copy the file at 1 minute past 2 (AM) every day, change 2 to whatever to copy at a different time.
i.e. if cron is running, check with

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sudo /etc/init.d/cron status

[richard_newberry]

Still didnt execute. Hmmm

[rogerthn]

Yes, Hmmm!

And

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sudo /etc/init.d/cron status

say

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[ ok ] cron is running.

?

[richard_newberry]

cumulus@debian:~$ /etc/init.d/cron status
● cron.service - Regular background program processing daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cron.service; enabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2016-05-04 22:22:02 BST; 2 days ago
Docs: man:cron(8)
Main PID: 17634 (cron)
CGroup: /system.slice/cron.service
├─ 1017 ./eggdrop BanditBot.conf
├─ 8998 /usr/bin/atop -a -w /var/log/atop/atop_20160506 600
└─17634 /usr/sbin/cron -f

All it says

I will see if it works under root.

[rogerthn]

Even if "my" command was

sudo /etc/init.d/cron status

this is Strange

Do you get an update of /tmp/date.log once every minute with a line as below added with crontab -e?

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* * * * * echo $(date) > /tmp/date.log 2>&1

[richard_newberry]

That works date.log is in /tmp every minute.

[richard_newberry]

cp -v /home/cumulus/CumulusMX/Reports/NOAAMO$(date --date="1 days ago" +%m%y).txt /var/www/NOAA-reports > /tmp/NOAA-reports.log 2>&1

error message: cp: target ‘+’ is not a directory

[rogerthn]

WTH
Can you please show the result from

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echo /home/cumulus/CumulusMX/Reports/NOAAMO$(date --date="1 days ago" +%m%y).txt

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ls /var/www/NOAA-reports

AND

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crontab -l

[richard_newberry]

echo /home/cumulus/CumulusMX/Reports/NOAAMO$(date --date="1 days ago" +%m%y).txt
/home/cumulus/CumulusMX/Reports/NOAAMO0516.txt

ls /var/www/NOAA-reports
NOAAMO0116.txt NOAAMO0216.txt NOAAMO0316.txt NOAAMO0416.txt NOAAMO0516.txt NOAAYR2016.txt

crontab -l
10 0 * * * cp -v /home/cumulus/CumulusMX/Reports/NOAAMO$(date --date="1 days ago") +%m%y).txt /var/www/NOAA-reports > /tmp/NOAA-reports.log 2>&1

[mcrossley]

doesn't the cron entry need to be a shell script so the date substitution works?

[richard_newberry]

doesn't the cron entry need to be a shell script so the date substitution works?

What do you suggest the script should be

[freddie]

doesn't the cron entry need to be a shell script so the date substitution works?

What do you suggest the script should be

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#!/bin/sh
cp -v /home/cumulus/CumulusMX/Reports/NOAAMO$(date --date="1 days ago") +%m%y).txt /var/www/NOAA-reports

[rogerthn]

echo /home/cumulus/CumulusMX/Reports/NOAAMO$(date --date="1 days ago" +%m%y).txt
/home/cumulus/CumulusMX/Reports/NOAAMO0516.txt

ls /var/www/NOAA-reports
NOAAMO0116.txt NOAAMO0216.txt NOAAMO0316.txt NOAAMO0416.txt NOAAMO0516.txt NOAAYR2016.txt

crontab -l
10 0 * * * cp -v /home/cumulus/CumulusMX/Reports/NOAAMO$(date --date="1 days ago") +%m%y).txt /var/www/NOAA-reports > /tmp/NOAA-reports.log 2>&1

There seems to be an extra ) in crontab, one after "1 days ago" and one after +%m%y
Try to remove the first?

[rogerthn]

The extra ) is not all
Try as below

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10 0 * * * cp -v /home/cumulus/CumulusMX/Reports/NOAAMO$(date --date="1 days ago" +"\%m\%y").txt /var/www/NOAA-reports > /tmp/NOAA-reports.log 2>&1