Not being able to run cron

[Warlord88]

Hi,

I'm just not being able to run a simple cron job. Here is my crontab file:

#!/bin/bash
PATH=/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/ewwstats/bin:/usr/java/bin:/home/ewwstats/bin

* * * * * /bin/echo "Meh" >> /home/warlord/crontest.dat
* * * * * env > /tmp/env.output

As you can see, I have added the path variable as suggested elsewhere. There is a newline at the end. The command

pgrep cron

does return me a number, which indicates that the service is running. I'm not an admin, so I can't restart the service.

I just don't see those two output files "crontest.dat" and "env.outupt" being generated. Running just the command following the five starts does generate them, so there is nothing wrong with the commands themselves.

Isn't five starts supposed to run the job every minute? What am I missing here?

[dayid]

Everything looks OK.

1. What distribution/uname are you on?
2. Does your user have access/permissions to use cron?
3. Are in you /etc/cron.{allow,deny}

[Warlord88]

Everything looks OK.

1. What distribution/uname are you on?
2. Does your user have access/permissions to use cron?
3. Are in you /etc/cron.{allow,deny}

* Distribution is CentOS release 5.6 (Final), uname is Linux.
* How do I check if I have access/permissions to use cron? In the meanwhile, I'll also try asking the admins.
* There is no /etc/cron.allow file and the file cron.deny is empty.

[Warlord88]

Never mind. I just found out that cron jobs are not allowed on that system.

Thanks for the reply. I could have never found it out on my own.