Crontab not working on specific time

Question

a.sh contains:

mkdir abc

I made it executable using:

chmod 777 a.sh

Then I configured crontab using:

crontab -e

And entered this line:

56 09 * * * /home/subir/Jarvis/a.sh

The abc directory is not created at that given time.

Which steps can I take to figure out why this does not work as expected?

What happens if you run /home/subir/Jarvis/a.sh from an interactive shell? — Haxiel
– Haxiel, Commented Dec 7, 2019 at 5:42
This is exactly the same as in Crontab to make directory in Desktop — Freddy
– Freddy, Commented Dec 7, 2019 at 10:09
You've got the abc directory in your home directory though, is that not where you want it? If so create it elsewhere. — Kusalananda
– Kusalananda ♦, Commented Dec 7, 2019 at 17:20
Does anything in cron work? Maybe you aren’t in the cron.allow file. — bxm
– bxm, Commented Dec 7, 2019 at 20:01

bxm · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-07 07:07:28Z

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If that’s exactly how you created the file, you haven’t set execute permission on it. You missed out this:

chmod +x a.sh

You may wish to set a more specific mode, refer to man chmod for more details.

If you don’t want to make it executable for some reason, you can still run in cron it by invoking it with your shell interpreter, e.g.

/bin/bash /home/subir/Jarvis/a.sh

Amend to use you preferred shell.

answered Dec 7, 2019 at 7:01

bxm

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