I create a simply script in /root/test.sh file:
#!/bin/bash
echo "hello"
mkdir newdir
next:
chmod +x /root/test.sh
We can convinced, what test.sh is owned by root:
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-ams3-01:~# find /root -user root /root
/root/test.sh
So, my crontab:
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-ams3-01:~# crontab -l
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
* * * * * /root/test.sh
(Also i did try with run-parts:
* * * * * root run-parts /root/test.sh
)
No one method not run my script, not out "hello" and not create a newdir directory.
service cron status:
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-ams3-01:~# service cron status
● cron.service - Regular background program processing daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cron.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sat 2018-08-18 15:46:42 UTC; 23h ago
Docs: man:cron(8)
Main PID: 1340 (cron)
Tasks: 1
Memory: 26.8M
CPU: 7.982s
CGroup: /system.slice/cron.service
└─1340 /usr/sbin/cron -f
Aug 19 15:16:01 ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-ams3-01 CRON[439]: (root) CMD (root run-parts /root/test.sh)
Aug 19 15:16:01 ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-ams3-01 CRON[438]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output)
Aug 19 15:16:01 ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-ams3-01 CRON[438]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
Aug 19 15:17:01 ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-ams3-01 CRON[1032]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Aug 19 15:17:01 ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-ams3-01 CRON[1031]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Aug 19 15:17:01 ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-ams3-01 CRON[1033]: (root) CMD (root run-parts /root/test.sh)
Aug 19 15:17:01 ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-ams3-01 CRON[1032]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output)
Aug 19 15:17:01 ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-ams3-01 CRON[1032]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
Aug 19 15:17:01 ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-ams3-01 CRON[1034]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Aug 19 15:17:01 ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-ams3-01 CRON[1031]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
every minutes cron tries do something, but, how I see - I haved message
session closed for user root
and nothing not happens.
What more I must to do?
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after deleting the string [email protected] script correctly creats newdir directory. But yet not printed string 'hello'. So it works, but some issue in #echo "hello" string.
Run
crontab -e
and put following line in it:This is running every minute. The test.err file will give you output error in case the command does not succeed.