Re: cron job not executing

On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 11:24:44AM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
On Sat, 05 May 2012 18:26:30 -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote:

I've got a little cron job,
just trying to fire off a script (see http://tonyb.us/mattbot ) and it's
not firing.

I have other jobs on the same crontab that do. When I run the script
manually, it runs.

(...)

Here is a good collection of the common reasons why a cron job does not
engage:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/23009/reasons-why-crontab-does-not-work

P.S. I vote for the missing empty line :-P

Ha! I think that WAS it!
Always something so simple and easily overlooked...

tony
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