cron job doesn't output to nohup.out

Question

i have start.sh bash script that is running though CRON JOB on ubuntu server

start.sh contains bellow mentioned line

Answer 1

Why are you using nohup? nohup is a command that tells the running terminal to ignore the hangup signal. cron, however, has no hangup signal, because it is not linked to a terminal session.

In this case, instead of:

nohup scrapy crawl first &

You probably want:

scrapy crawl first > first.txt &

The last example also works in a terminal, but when you close the terminal, the hangup signal (hup) is sent, which ends the program.