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hmm ok..

pls can u write the output

Code:

 
# ls -l /opt/CancelAuthCronJOB/cancelauth.sh

Code:

# ps -ef | grep cron

Code:

[root@bmasnq02 tmp]# ls -l /opt/CancelAuthCronJOB/cancelauth.sh
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4797 Oct  1  2009 /opt/CancelAuthCronJOB/cancelauth.sh


[root@bmasnq02 tmp]# ps -ef | grep cron
root      1559     1  0 12:54 ?        00:00:00 crond
root      4253  4798  0 13:26 pts/0    00:00:00 grep cron
[root@bmasnq02 tmp]#

---------- Post updated at 04:27 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:26 PM ----------

I have verified if I run the hourly/daily/weekly cron jobs that they work. I also removed everything from the crontab and just put in this line:

Code:

* * * * * echo Date `date` >> /tmp/crontest

but it won't even run that.

Moderator's Comments:

Please start using code tags. Thank you.

Check your mail and is there any error about cron?

The format of /etc/crontab and the files in /etc/cron.d are different from user crontabs. You appear to be using user crontab syntax which is incorrect.

Ok, then how should they look? I have verified on another system that is identical that the files all look the same, have same size, have same perms....

---------- Post updated at 05:38 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:37 PM ----------

Nope, no errors. That's what is puzzling me.

Typically /etc/crontab looks like:
The system crontab file looks almost identical to a user's crontab file, with a couple of subtle differences.

- The system crontab file is not stored in /var/spool/cron, and is not managed with the crontab command. Instead, the file is edited directly with a text editor.

- Entries contain an additional sixth field, which occurs after the five time specification fields but before the command. This field specifies the user the following command should run as (which is usually root).

The default /etc/crontab file comes with only four entries, each of which runs the command run-parts on one of the /etc/cron.hourly, /etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.weekly, or /etc/cron.monthly directories. Sysadmins are free to add their own entries to the /etc/crontab file.