I have used these 2 references to insert a new crontab entry.
I have created a new bash file and moved it to /usr/bin. That sh file has execute permissions for the root user and the admin group. The bash file just echos a line to a log file and then calls a java program. I have tested the sh file as root, manually. It runs fine. My crontab entry looks like this...
@hourly /usr/bin/foo.blah.sh
It's supposed to run at the top of every hour. The echo statement is not getting printed to the log file so I don't think crond is calling it at all. Also, when I visually monitor processes in "top", the job never appears. I have run "service crond status" to verify the cron daemon is running. The documentation says that restarting the daemon is not necessary. What else could I be doing wrong?