Background download does not work with webmin

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Hello and maybe good morning,

My freshly installed Debian 12 (HP T630) with webmin, have a small issue with scheduled download.

The small tool in webmin, where you can download from the web, you have two options.

  1. Download right now, and have a peek while it downloads.
  2. Download later, on a specific date/time.

Option 2 does not work for me.

The linux setup is quite basic. Nothing added besides jellyfin. Only stock/default settings. Installed yesterday…latest versions.

Another user in virtualmin discourse forum, replied that option two works just fine in his setup. Australian time/zone.

A cropjob works fine with wget…

When I take a look in webmin.log, I see this when I have started a test-background download.
1728457232.102409.0 [09/Oct/2024 09:00:32] root 35da329bb3cc7bb6a12d12eb2c41980b 192.168.0.xxx updown download.cgi “download” “-” “-” time=‘1728457200’ urls=‘mIRC: Download mIRC

And when I start a direct test-download with the tool, it looks like this:
1728457427.102967.0 [09/Oct/2024 09:03:47] root 35da329bb3cc7bb6a12d12eb2c41980b 192.168.0.xx updown download.cgi “download” “-” “-” time=‘’ urls=‘mIRC: Download mIRC ← This one works.

The time in the background download looks weird “time=‘1728457200’” …

My time should be set correctly, 24 hour format in copenhagen as timezone.

Any tricks?

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I’m assuming the post on the Webmin forums is also yours given that it was posted today :smiley:

I’m not too familiar with Webmin, so am unable to offer any real advice (hence why I tried to search instead!). I’d love to hear what the issue ends up being, though :slight_smile:

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Oh yes, that is indeed me.
Thanks for writing!
That is one of the main powers of forums… a solution can be shared and found with search engines, that is not the case with discord. So I will write the solution when I hopefully find it…

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That time is a unix timestamp. It looks normal to me. Does the file not download?

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Hi mwt. No the file never starts. Like the schedule is wrongly set or a misconfig with my timezone, 24h format and … yea.
But I have ignored it for now. It was nice to have as an extra tool if needed.

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Check time zone with timedatectl if its okay check is it 24-h format with “locale | grep TIME” if isnt do dpkg-reconfigure locales