Hi all, I am having a big problem and I have no idea what else can I do to solve it...

I created a NetCore application that reads and saves in a file some hardware information using dmidecode commands.

I deployed my application in a CentOS server, and assign it execution permissions by using the following command:

Now, when I execute my application I get a log file with the information I asked. My problem is when I set my application to be executed with crond.

For that, I ran the command:

And inserted the line:

After some seconds my log file is created, when I check it out it contains the information I ask except the one retrieved by the execution of dmidecode commands.

I am assuming that its a permission problem because the application is working fine when executing via command line.

After some research, I have also discovered that dmidecode requires sudo privileges... but I executed crontab -e with the root account, so I should have the right privileges right?

These are some things I tried:

- Add the user account root to the crontab line (nothing happens, no file generated)
- Changed the permisions of the file dmidecode in /usr/sbin/ with the command chmod 777 but the same happens (no output from dmidecode commands)
- Changed the application internal commands to run sudo before the dmidecode commands (no output from dmidecode commands)
- Created the cron job by adding it to the file /etc/cron (nothing happens)

I don't know what else I can do. Anyone knows what I am doing wrong? Or what else can I attempt to do?

Are you running selinux? Maybe there is something there that is not allowing dmidecode to run from a cron job.

You can check selinux with
If the mode is set to enforcing you can change it with
for testing and test your script again. to reactivate selinux after you are done run the command again with a 1 instead of the 0.

If it is set to disabled or permissive then selinux is not stopping you.

If permissions are set correctly and you know for sure that the cron job was setup under root I cannot think of any other reason for it not to work.

Thanks for the reply.

I checked if selinux was running by using the command

And the current mode was "enforcing", so I followed your instructions and changed the mode to "permissive", cleaned the log file and restarted crond, but I had the same results, no output from the dmidecode commands.

I checked the owner of the cron job by using the command ps -aux, and the user of the application executing was the root...

All the other commands called by my application work, only the dmidecode ones are failing only when executing via cron.

Any more ideas?

Maybe: chmod +s
Maybe add id command in your script, to debug
strace -f -o myfile /usr/sbin/dmidecode

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chmod +s in my executable or in dmidecode file?

After more research on the subject, I read somewhere that cron could be problematic when using relative paths.

So internally, in my NetCore application, I changed the commands to use absolute paths, so now instead of simply having dmidecode I have /usr/sbin/dmidecode, and that did the trick.

Not something related with permissions as I thought, but related with paths.

Thank you all for the sugestions.