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Crontab stopped working Jan 28th 2013, 08:48 I use crontab -e to add the following: Code: */1 * * * * /bin/echo "Hello" >> /home/varunb/hello.txt But it does not work! command is fine and works if I run it directly on command prompt. But for every minute i am testing crontab to work. Its not working. Please suggest me. It was working for all the users and root user also, suddenly stoped working last week. So just gave the example for root user, which is not working. dont know what is the problem??? [ Code: linux-3jcp:/home/varunb # cat /etc/issue Welcome to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 (x86_64) - Kernel \r (\l). linux-3jcp:/home/varunb # ls .bash_history  .viminfo linux-3jcp:/home/varunb # date Fri Jan 25 12:37:52 GMT 2013l inux-3jcp:/home/varunb # /bin/echo "Hello" >> /home/varunb/hello.txt linux-3jcp:/home/varunb # cat hello.txt  Hello linux-3jcp:/home/varunb # date Fri Jan 25 12:38:03 GMT 2013 linux-3jcp:/home/varunb # date Fri Jan 25 12:39:10 GMT 2013 linux-3jcp:/home/varunb # cat hello.txt  Hello linux-3jcp:/home/varunb # Also i am running as root, i don think there will be issue with the permissions. checked below url even http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7...ab-not-working don know what is the problem??? and i don find /var/log/cron.log /var/log/cron files. only /var/spool/cron/ linux-3jcp:/var/spool/cron/tabs # pwd/var/spool/cron/tabs linux-3jcp:/var/spool/cron/tabs # ls root  varunb  wwwrun linux-3jcp:/var/spool/cron/tabs # cat root #!/bin/sh */1 * * * * /bin/echo "Hello" >> /home/varunb/hello.txt

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