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Old 06-17-2018
Trouble with cron

Hello World!
Need some advise. I setup few crons on my server, but to my surprise none of them seems working. Any idea what am i missing here? Is group rights a must in order for cron to run?

Crontab:
Code:
mandrel@sp74t0006c :[/etc/cron.d(14825)]$cat /etc/crontab
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/

# For details see man 4 crontabs

# Example of job definition:
# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)
# |  .------------- hour (0 - 23)
# |  |  .---------- day of month (1 - 31)
# |  |  |  .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...
# |  |  |  |  .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
# |  |  |  |  |
# *  *  *  *  * user-name command to be executed

mandrel@sp74t0006c :[/etc/cron.d(14825)]$

My cron:
Code:
#################################################################################################################
#
5 * * * * /opt/fabpkg/home/mandrel/data_adm/sophi/mapsmove/run_mandrel_mapsmove.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
20 * * * * /opt/fabpkg/home/mandrel/data_adm/sophi/oref_inspect/run_oref_inspect.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
25 * * * * /opt/fabpkg/home/mandrel/data_adm/sophi/oref_inspect_bdft/run_oref_inspect_bdft.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
30 * * * * /opt/fabpkg/home/mandrel/data_adm/sophi/sizedata/run_sizedata.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
35 * * * * /opt/fabpkg/home/mandrel/data_adm/sophi/summary/run_sophia_summary.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /opt/fabpkg/home/mandrel/data_adm/sophi/qc/run_qc_daemon.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
5,15,25,35,45,55 * * * * /opt/fabpkg/home/mandrel/data_adm/sophi/ellipsometer/run_ellipsometer_daemon.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /opt/fabpkg/home/mandrel/data_adm/sophi/ivs/run_mandrel_ivs.sh > /dev/null 2>&1

---------- Post updated at 10:59 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:41 AM ----------

Sorry guys, i should have be more careful. Ive screwed up with the paths. Corrected it and now it works.

Kindly delete this thread. My appology!
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Old 06-18-2018
Compared to the traditional crontab that is maintained with the crontab command, the /etc/crontab is to be directly edited (by root) and has an additional user-name field.
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