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If your cron job is not running as expected check the following: – permission for this file should be 600 – one one can read except root – check the syntax – you need to provide the user that the job should run with ( this is different with crontab -e where it will use the current user) – sometimes your file may have some special characters such as ^M, you don’t see them in normal editor , you can run this command : cat -v /etc/cron.d/your_cron_job file – Make sure that cron service is running:  ps -aux | grep cron – check the logRead More →