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cron runs but nothing happens

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Mar 15, 20268448 views
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Problem

I have created a script called "forward_email.sh" and set permissions to 777. It contains the following line: I created a cron job with the following line: The problem is that the "email.log" file never gets changed. I even set the permissions to 666. When I run the script manually, it works perfec…

Error Output

echo "It worked: $(date)" >> /home/noc/email.log

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Fix for: cron runs but nothing happens

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Lots of potential things off the top of my head. Are you sure the crontab entry is really pointing at your script? For example, if you want to run a script such as ~noc/bin/script.sh, but have an entry like /home/noc/bin/script (ie a subtle typo) th…

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