cron doesn't execute scripts after setting it up

Question

According to this site I set up cron to execute a script for me, first just trying to get it to work with cat before doing the actual work I need to do (actual work will need root priviliges so I did everything as root to make my life easier later):

me> sudo su
root> crontab -e

Edited the file as follows, leaving a blank line at the end:

SHELL=/bin/bash
#which cat outputs /bin/cat
PATH="/bin"

# execute this every minute, if it works, change cat to my script
1 * * * * cat /home/me/source.txt 1> /home/me/destination.txt

According to this SO question, restarted the cron service to be sure it loads changes after saving the file and exiting the editor:

root> service cron restart

And then waited for a few minutes. Nothing happened. Then restarted the computer. Again, nothing. Where did I do it wrong?

Answer 1

Your crontab is running at 1st minute of every hour. To run every minute you have to configure like this.

* * * * * cat /home/me/source.txt 1> /home/me/destination.txt