How to troubleshoot cron jobs?

[guest27102]

I don't get why my cron jobs doesn't run. I've setup a cron job to automatically update the unbound dns blacklist, but it never runs. I have it configured to run every night at 04. And I have setup a few others to run when I know I'm home to check whether they run or not. For instance before writing this post, I setup a new cron job for updating the blacklist and the reboot at

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15 * * * * meaning it shout have ran at 19.15 (now it is 19.22) and it never ran.

I can't figure anywhere to check why if didn't ran, what happened, any error. I can't see a tasklist of completed or fail tasks.

[lfirewall1243]

Have you added the cronjob over the Web Interface of OPNsense?

[guest27102]

Yes, sorry. That is true, I added the cron job via the web interface.

[lfirewall1243]

Yes, sorry. That is true, I added the cron job via the web interface.

Take a screenshot of it

[Maurice]

I've setup a cron job to automatically update the unbound dns blacklist, but it never runs.

Are you sure it doesn't run? This works fine for me, but it doesn't write anything to the system log. You can check the Unbound log for restarts or the modification date of /var/unbound/etc/dnsbl.conf.

Also, make sure to click the Apply button after adding a cron job.

[guest27102]

Take a screenshot of it

[lfirewall1243]

Take a screenshot of it

And where do you see that its not working ?

[logi]

If I use a custom link for the blocklist (URLs of Blocklists) instead of the predefined Type of DNSBL, will the cron I had created for the automatic daily (Update Unbound DNSBLs) download will also pull the updates from  the custom URLs of Blocklists link? Thanks