Just realised that your original cron from post #1 must have been running the script every 5 minutes and therefore appending to the output file every 5 minutes. So if you look at 11:00 local time the timestamp changes ... and again at 11:05 etc. . There is nothing obvious wrong with the timestamp on that file unless it wasn't 11:00 when you looked.
What are you trying to do and what is your expected output?
Im trying to get memory reading with the ps command every 5 minutes, 24 hours a day unless the system is down (its set up with S'pore time zone). Since the previous 2 cron settings didn't work, so I edited the cron to run 5 mins and all other paramaters set as * :
Code:
[root@EP-WCRM1 03]# ls -lrt
total 572
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 206521 Mar 19 23:55 2012-03-19
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 186589 Mar 20 12:15 2012-03-20
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 82800 Mar 21 23:55 2012-03-21--------working!
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 85050 Mar 22 15:40 2012-03-22
and this is how my cronjob looks like now:
Code:
##Run memory report every 5 mins daily
*/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/MEM_Report/MEM_daily_run
Also, there's another script that creates an empty report file every day at 1min past midnight:
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