I have a script for changing wallpapers that I have run before with crontab. Did a new install yesterday and can't get crontab to work. I have searched for and not find any logs from crontab but it doesn't work, here is the output from crontab -l
bola@bola-pc:~$ crontab -l
# 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(
#
# m h dom mon dow command
*/2 * * * * /usr/bin/backdrop-randomizer R
#
bola@bola-pc:~$
I have tried with or without the last # in the crontab file
When I do the command/run the script manually the walpaper changed as it shall do. backdrop-randomizer R
Edit : Looks like cron is not working
bola@bola-pc:~$ systemctl status cron
● cron.service - Regular background program processing daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cron.service; disabled; vendor preset: en
Active: inactive (dead)
Docs: man:cron(
Now I have to find out how to start it ....