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termux-job-scheduler hangs without any message

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Since Feb 8, 2025.

  • #201 by @twaik — open

Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
android, shell
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by reproducing the termux-job-scheduler command with the supplied script, period, and network arguments, then compare the behavior with the related issues 78 and 276. Trace where the command should report status or schedule the rsync job; done means the command no longer hangs silently and the scheduled job has a visible result.

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Description

bug

Hi,

I'm trying to schedule a job as follows: termux-job-scheduler --period-ms 86400000 --script /storage/emulated/0/Backup/rsync.sh --network any

The script is simply a small rsync job to sync some photos.
When I issue the command, nothing happens.

I thought it might be related to https://github.com/termux/termux-api-package/issues/78 or https://github.com/termux/termux-api/issues/276 but it doesn't seem so.

Thanks

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