[Software] crontab record to establish IPsec vpn connection

[marchello]

Hi all,

I'm trying to set crontab record to establish IPsec vpn connection on system boot:

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crontab -l
* * * * * /usr/sbin/ipsec status | /bin/grep -q 'ESTABLISHED' || /usr/sbin/ipsec restart
@reboot /usr/sbin/ipsec restart
@reboot /usr/local/bin/python3.10 -m pip install requests requests_ntlm
@reboot /usr/local/bin/python3.10 -m pip install --upgrade pip
@reboot /bin/sleep 60 && /usr/sbin/ipsec status | /bin/grep -q 'ESTABLISHED' || /usr/sbin/ipsec restart

None of them work for me. As you can see, I have also added few pip commands just to make sure they worked in crontab (they did).

But manual command run works for me:

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/usr/sbin/ipsec status | /bin/grep -q 'ESTABLISHED' || /usr/sbin/ipsec restart

Just in case, here is how I determine it didn't work:

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/usr/sbin/ipsec status

[empty response]

This is how I determine it actually did work:

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/usr/sbin/ipsec status
Security Associations (1 up, 0 connecting):
       myvpn[1]: ESTABLISHED 15 seconds ago, 172.18.0.3[172.18.0.3]...REMOTE_IP_ADDRESS[REMOTE_IP_ADDRESS]
       myvpn{1}:  INSTALLED, TUNNEL, reqid 1, ESP in UDP SPIs: cd0b3ccc_i f8833716_o
       myvpn{1}:   172.18.0.0/16 === 192.168.238.0/24

(REMOTE_IP_ADDRESS is a placeholder)

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PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="11"
VERSION="11 (bullseye)"
VERSION_CODENAME=bullseye
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"

Please advise.