autorestic cron does not work even when cron settings are defined in global section of the config

[Kenya-West]

Describe the bug
Definition of the cron in global section of the config leads to autorestic cron being launched but doing nothing, as I see in log file.

Expected behavior
autorestic cron command should work and do something and there should be log records of command working,

Environment

• OS: Ubuntu
• Version: 24.04
• Autorestic version: 1.8.3

Additional context
I create the following config:

version: 2

extras:
  backup: &backup
    exclude-file: []
  forget: &forget
    keep-last:
      - 10
    forgetoption: prune
  complete_options: &complete_options
    backup:
      <<: *backup

global:
  forget:
    keep-last: 5
    keep-daily: 4
    keep-weekly: 1
    keep-monthly: 12
    keep-yearly: 7

locations:
  home_user:
    from: /home/user
    to:
    - somehost
    options:
      <<: *complete_options
  shared_ssl:
    from: /etc/ssl/shared
    to:
    - somehost
    options:
      <<: *complete_options

backends:
  somehost:
    type: rest
    path: http://sub.example.tld:22002/
    rest:
      user: user
      password: password

- and the following cron job (from sudo):

#Ansible: Autorestic backup
5 * * * * /home/user/backup-restic-node/autorestic/scripts/update-cron-debug.sh

PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"

autorestic -c /home/user/backup-restic-node/autorestic/config/.autorestic.yaml --ci cron > /tmp/autorestic.log 2>&1

as you can see, it writes an output to /tmp/autorestic.log file, but after execution of the command only the following is written there:

 $user: ~/ ❯ sudo cat /tmp/autorestic.log
Using config:    /home/user/backup-restic-node/autorestic/config/.autorestic.yaml
Using env:       /home/user/backup-restic-node/autorestic/config/.autorestic.env
Using lock:      /home/user/backup-restic-node/autorestic/config/.autorestic.lock.yml

- and that's it. The actual backup procedure does not happen. What is going on?

I watched for this for 3 days and it did nothing. The manual backup works good.