cron job not running on Centos 6.3

Question

I have created a cron job that runs a script which moves files from one location to another.
Here is my result after running crontab -l

0 6 * * 0 root /root/scripts/move.script.sh

move.script.sh has following lines of codes:

#!/bin/sh
/bin/rm -rf /home/user1/folder2/Monday/*
/bin/mv /home/user1/folder1/* /home/user1/folder2/Monday/

With this code, I first remove the stuff from last week in Monday folder and then copy stuff from user1's folder1.

How ever this job doesn't run at all.

I have checked with other cronjobs but they work fine and the problem is with this cronjob only.

Can anyone tell me what I have done wrong in here?

Answer 1

The format of cron entries in /etc/crontab and cron daemon, located in /var/spool/cron/$username are different. In /etc/crontab, you have to specify the user-name under which the command will be executed, while in the later you don't have to.

The crontab -l command you executed shows you the cron entries for the user executing that command. It doesn't show you the /etc/crontab entries. In short, you have to remove the user root from the cron entry.

Edit the cron entry using the command

  crontab -e

Then replace your entry with the one below

  0 6 * * 0 /root/scripts/move.script.sh