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OS : Fedora release 8
user : root
crontab -e :output
11 * * * * root /bin/touch /home/arun/Desktop/f1
But this cron job is not creating new file ‘f1’.
/var/log/cron :says
Feb 21 09:11:01 localhost CROND[5762]: (root) CMD (root /bin/touch /home/arun/Desktop/f1 )
In command line I executed below command and it creates file f1.
#/bin/touch /home/arun/Desktop/f1
You are trying to execute the command
root /bin/touch /home/arun/Desktop/f1The executable ‘root’ obviously does not exist. Try removing ‘root’ (via crontab -e) and make the crontab entry look like: