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CookieEater
CookieEater

Reputation: 2496

cronjob not working on Debian

I don't know why my cronjob doesn't run the way I expect. I added the following line to crontab -e.

* * * * * /home/cookiemon/test.sh

This script is executable and simply appends current time to output.txt

#!/bin/sh
date >> output.txt

It seems that this script is running correctly when I check the log at /var/log/syslog. However, the output.txt file is never created. I tried this with sudo crontab -e, but the result was exactly the same. What am I doing wrong?

FYI, I am using Debian Wheezy.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 187

Answers (1)

devnull
devnull

Reputation: 123608

However, the output.txt file is never created.

The script is producing the output at a location where you don't have write access.

Specify the complete path to the log.

#!/bin/sh
date >> /home/cookiemon/output.txt

Upvotes: 1

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