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How do I stop jellyfin from restarting everyday at the same time? - mildlyjelly - 2025-07-27
Everyday at exactly 3am, the jellyfin service restarts.
I've checked
- sudo cron
- user cron
- the service file (/lib/systemd/system/jellyfin.service)
- scheduled tasks in jellyfin dashboard
I don't know where else to check.
From the logs, I see this:
Quote:Jul 27 03:00:02 jelly systemd[1]: Stopping Jellyfin Media Server...
Jul 27 03:00:02 jelly jellyfin[52017]: [03:00:02] [INF] Sending shutdown notifications
I thought maybe it was a jellyfin scheduled task that was running everyday at 3:00 and crashing, but there are no errors in the logs besides episode look up failures.
I also manually ran all of the scheduled tasks that had triggers and none of them cause the service to restart.
Does anyone have any ideas?
RE: How do I stop jellyfin from restarting everyday at the same time? - 34626 - 2025-07-27
Please run this to see if there is any systemd timers on Jellyfin:
systemctl list-timers --all
RE: How do I stop jellyfin from restarting everyday at the same time? - mildlyjelly - 2025-07-27
Thank for the suggestion.
Unfortunately, none of the timers are related to jellyfin and the ones that could effect it, like apt-daily-upgrade, run at the wrong time to cause the jellyfin service to restart at exactly 3:00 am.
RE: How do I stop jellyfin from restarting everyday at the same time? - mildlyjelly - 2025-07-27
Well, this is embarrassing...
So, I have a backup script that runs every day at 3 am.
The second command in the backup script is to shutdown jellyfin before doing the backup...