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I am using crontab on unix shell

using putty to connect to unix server

unable to use crontab

i scheduled crontab at say * * * * * cat > new < new1

doesnt work I works only in home directory of user only not in other directory

can you help me in this

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Please rephrase your question giving more information. What is the exact crontab line? How do you use crontab (crontab -e or you modify a specific file)? Have you tried that command? Have you tried putting it in an executable script? Is there any error in the logfiles? ...etc – lorenzog Feb 8 '10 at 9:16
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Try putting full paths for the filenames.

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Are you using the system-wide crontab in /etc/crontab or the user's crontab (crontab -e)? If the latter, does the user have write access to that "other directory"?

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