How to detect and fix why crontab job is not executed?
I have set several cron jobs. I recently added a new cron job that copies a file of last day from another server and is executed each day (for example at 04:00 am) but when I check next day the file hasn't been copied.
I'm working in GNU/Linux CentOS (2.6.32) system.
The files that I need to copy are created in the origin server before 23:00 hours.
I had the cron job like below: (The first line is the job that fails. related script to copy the files is script1.sh)
When I checked next day about 11:00 am I see the file wasn't copied, I edited cron job to be executed at 11:10 am and the file was copied successfully.
The script1.sh content is this:
The files to be copied have in their name the format Logfile.2018-01-17
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