Thanks for the reply dk_netsvil.
There is nothing relevant in /var/log/messages; No mail for root.
Thanks for the link, it is well explained and very helpful. However, there is no solution to my problem. crond is running but not executing any tasks!? I rewrote the crontab file to make sure it is not a syntax error of any kind. It looks like this now:
Code:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/
25 * * * * root /bin/ls / > /tmp/ls.txt
crond saw the change and reloaded the crontab:
Code:
Jul 16 13:20:01 webcam01 crond[23242]: (*system*) RELOAD (/etc/crontab)
and
Code:
# ls -lut /etc/crontab
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 352 Jul 16 13:21 /etc/crontab
and my file didn't get created...