[TriLUG] Cron doesn't seem to run

[Matthew Glassman via TriLUG]

But how come the shell still allowed me to use it?  Shouldn’t it pause for 10 seconds?
On Jan 9, 2022, 1:01 PM -0500, Bill Trautman <lhasadad at gmail.com>, wrote:
> It slept 10 seconds.  Look at the time stamp.
>
> > On Sun, Jan 9, 2022 at 12:59 PM Matthew Glassman via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> > > Hello TriLug,
> > >
> > > I was just testing out cron/crontab on my Ubuntu box and I'm pretty sure I
> > > know how to use it for basic (simple) stuff.  However, technology seems to
> > > be have other ideas.
> > >
> > > I entered crontab -e and put in the following just to have the shell sleep
> > > for 10 minutes to see that it worked.
> > >
> > > 45 12 09 01 * sleep 10
> > >
> > > If I check the status, I see the following output yet nothing actually
> > > happened in the terminal.  What am I missing?  Do I need a full path to
> > > execute command?  Works fine if I just put sleep 10 at the prompt.
> > >
> > > Jan 09 12:45:01 mglassman CRON[4907]: pam_unix(cron:session): session
> > > opened for user mglassman by (uid=0)
> > > Jan 09 12:45:01 mglassman CRON[4908]: (mglassman) CMD (sleep 10)
> > > Jan 09 12:45:11 mglassman CRON[4907]: pam_unix(cron:session): session
> > > closed for user mglassman
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