Cron not running - Solved

[Phil]

On 30/07/13 16:55, Luca Ferrari wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Phil <phil_lor at bigpond.com> wrote:
>> I cannot get any cron jobs to run. My first guess was that crond has not
>> been started but that could be wrong because "sudo start crond" results in
>> an "unknown job" error.
>>
>> So, what could the problem be?
>
> It could be cron not running, but that's quite easy to verify using ps(1).
> Then it could a be a path setup in a bad manner to run your scripts.
> The easiest way to test if cron is running fine is to place a dummy job like:
>   * * * * * echo "Hello World" >> /tmp/hello.txt
>

I thought about your answer Luca and realised that I had simplified my 
script too much. Problem solved.

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Regards,
Phil