Issue with cron job

[sprasadh]

I have scheduled a cronjob like the following

* 13 * * * /home/test/test.sh

This should execute the script test.sh every minute from 13:00 hrs. But this is not happening.Following checks I made
1.crond status is running
2.initially the user din't have permission to execute the script.Later logged in as root inserted a empty file cron.deny in /etc path which gave permission to all users to use crontab.

But still the script is not getting executed.But when run from command prompt script gets executed.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[Agent-X]

You need to put "bash" in there.
How should it execute that script?

* 13 * * * bash /home/test/test.sh

[peteh]

If you run a cron job on a script in your \home directory you don't need to be root or give extra permissions unless the script is affecting files outside the \home folder.
If your script starts "#! /bin/bash", you don't need bash in the cron line*.
I think your cron job is set up to run every minute at 13.00 which means at best it would run once.
Try:

 1 * * * * \home etc ...

EDIT: * provided you've also made it executable.

[peteh]

A rethink on my previous post.
I think the cron line should read:

 * 13-17 * * * \home\etc ...

That would run it every minute between 13.00 and 17.00 hours.

[sprasadh]

Thanks for all your suggestions.Two changes made my script work.
1. Instead of * 13 * * * /home/test/test.sh i provided * 13 * * * /bin/sh /home/test/test.sh
2.My output file I expected in some other directory but it was placed in the home directory which after making changes for redirection of output file by giving proper path worked
Thx