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I Can't Seem to Get Anything Inside of the Cron. D Folder Working. I Need to Be Able to Drop Cron Files Inside or as Least Just Get One File Working That I Can...
I can't seem to get anything inside of the cron.d folder working. I need to be able to drop cron files inside or as least just get one file working that I can edit. Currently the folder has a "php5" file that already works but my other files wont run. I made the file the same permissions as the "php5" file (644 root:root)
This is my current cron file under /etc/cron.d/mycron
* * * * * root /usr/bin/php /var/www/private/cron/checkstatus.php
Is there some kind of magicaly hidden file I need to my cron file to?
Running debian 7.5.0 minimal server install.
1 Answer
Thank you Stephen, it was simpler than I though. I checked the logs
tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep cron -i
And I found this
ERROR (Missing newline before EOF, this crontab file will be ignored)
Adding a newline to the end of my crontab files fixed the problem. On top of that I had a return carriage character from Windows that was causing bash to choke.
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