Why crontab is not executing shell script?
Issue
- Why crontab is not executing shell srcipt.
- The shell script works fine when run it manually.
- The crontab file: /etc/crontab looks like:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root@localhost.localdomain
HOME=/root
\# run-parts
01 \* \* \* \* root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 \* \* \* root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
00 0 \* \* \* root yum update -y
22 04 \* \* 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 04 01 \* \* root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
16 00 \* \* \* root /home/timemanager/www/global\_protected/cron/employee\_import
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Crontab
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