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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting My Cronjob is not running Post 302600130 by methyl on Monday 20th of February 2012 07:05:51 AM
Old 02-20-2012
If you were logged in as "root" then the cron is owned by root.

Code:
#To find out your Operating System and version:
uname -a
#To find out your normal Shell
echo $SHELL

The mail file is a text file. You can read it with "more" or "tail". In your case at 12:01 GMT you should find it quite easily:
Code:
tail -200 /var/spool/mail/root | more

There are proper ways of reading the mail but we are probably just looking for an error message or other output from your cron.

The permissions of the script file are important. It must be executable by the owner of the cron.
Code:
ls -ald /ask/tarballs/tar1.sh


(POSTS CROSSED)
You need to make the script file executable.
Code:
chmod 755  /ask/tarballs/tar1.sh

Also note that the error message in your post came from /bin/sh which is the default Shell from cron.
If the default Shell from your user is different you will need a shebang line at the top of your script.
 

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