[Software] [SOLVED] cron job not working

[kyon]

first of all I already search around about 1 day and can not find a useful solution, so I hope ask in forum would fix it XD

SYSTEM: debian bookwarm, which is the latest testing version of debian now
DESKTOP: KDE

my content with crontab -e

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@reboot cfw
@reboot python -m http.server 9191 --directory ~/Rules --bind 0.0.0.0

cfw is a symbollink I create in /usr/bin/cfw, if I run cfw in terminal by hand, it works perfectlly along with terminal session alive, but in cron it just not working
the second cron job start a python server, it works perfectlly
so I dont know where is the problem, please help me fix it, appreciated !

ADDITION INFO: cfw is ClashForWindows linux release, github link

[th0ni]

Did you try the full path in crontab - /usr/bin/cfw ?

[kyon]

Did you try the full path in crontab - /usr/bin/cfw ?

oh, yes, I forgot to say I already tried

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@reboot /usr/bin/cfw
@reboot /home/kyon/Apps/clash_for_windows/cfw 

/home/kyon/Apps/clash_for_windows/cfw is origin place of symbollink
both doesn't work

[kyon]

I found a project call crontab-ui can easy check errors!, below is the cfw cronjob error msg

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[760:1114/105120.568101:ERROR:ozone_platform_x11.cc(247)] Missing X server or $DISPLAY
[760:1114/105120.568119:ERROR:env.cc(226)] The platform failed to initialize.  Exiting.
The futex facility returned an unexpected error code.
Aborted (core dumped)

[reinob]

You are trying to run a GUI (X) program, from a non-interactive session (cron), which is furthermore running as root instead of your user.

If you want to autostart a program when your user logs in X, there are many ways, including the use of ~/.config/autostart, which most DEs honor.

[kyon]

You are trying to run a GUI (X) program, from a non-interactive session (cron), which is furthermore running as root instead of your user.

If you want to autostart a program when your user logs in X, there are many ways, including the use of ~/.config/autostart, which most DEs honor.

thanks, I should put them into ~/.config/autostart