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Run all the lines in /etc/profile and include any variables from it into your shell. Unlike a shell login, crontab does not do this by default, you have to do it yourself. Also, I repeat my...

Did it at least create /root/VoIPpackets ?

You omitted the most important line:

#!/bin/sh

. /etc/profile

# just to prove this script's running at all
touch /root/cronranme

#captures...

The crontab entry looks okay, but there's lots wrong with your script.

Technically the name doesn't matter but shell scripts are usually .sh, not .txt. It being named .txt makes me wonder if you...

be careful with the '%' in crontab:
'man crontab' yields:

Only the first line (up to a `%' or end of line) of the com-
mand field is executed by the shell. Other lines are made
...

This is a forward slash - use the '\'