Cron Job in Fedora 8 - Not getting the desired result

Question

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

Answer 1

You are trying to execute the command root /bin/touch /home/arun/Desktop/f1 The executable 'root' obviously does not exist. Try removing 'root' (via crontab -e) and make the crontab entry look like:

 11 * * * * /bin/touch /home/arun/Desktop/f1