Cron not executing jobs

Question

I'm having trouble making cron work.

I edit my cron jobs doing

1. sudo crontab -u myuser -e

2. sudo crontab -u myuser -l prompts my cron tables:

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   */1 * * * * /home/myuser/Projects/scripts/cron.sh
   

3. /usr/lib/cron/cron.allow and .deny do not exist

4. ps -A | grep cron && ps aux | grep 'cron' -n

   820 ?        00:00:00 cron
   63:root       820  0.0  0.0   2268   884 ?        Ss   17:09   0:00 cron
   

Yet the script is not executed. Am I missing something?

After the crontab -e it shows that it is saving to a temporary file. Is this a problem?

Answer 1

Cron check the crontabs every minute to look for changes, create your cron entry and be more patient. crontab's are saved in temporary file until they're read.

Why you're using sudo to modify crontab for another user? User without shell? Seems strange to execute an script in that environment.

My answer is basead in vixie's cron, always put version and branch of the software in that type of question.