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I'm trying to schedule a task to run ever minute using cron:

* * * * * /home/yzm/simple.sh >> /var/log/cron.log

and this returns: bash: yzm: command not found

cd-ing out of that folder:

cd .. * * * * * /home/yzm/simple.sh >> /var/log/cron.log

returns: bash: bin: command not found

I've verified that the script works when just executing over terminal: sh /home/yzm/simple.sh

I'm not sure what I need to do to get this working. Whenever I try to run the crontab command, it seems to just take the first entry in the current directory and output "command not found".

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It sounds like you're trying to run the crontab entry in a terminal, instead of editing the crontab file using crontab -e. So the shell is expanding the *s to list of files and directories (first those in your /home where it finds your home dir then, after you cd .., in /, starting with /bin) and trying to run the list as a sequence of shell commands. –  steeldriver Mar 17 at 22:19
    
@steeldriver I think that should be an answer, really. –  Michael Kjörling Mar 17 at 22:24
    
crontab -l returns: * * * * * /bin/echo "doge" >> /home/yzm/asdf which isnt working as well, so I'm not sure as to how to proceed.. –  Symba Mar 17 at 22:24
    
Does the script have execute perm? –  Adrian Mar 18 at 5:38
    
how should you provide permissions for cron? I don't know if cron properly resolves paths so I try to point directly to the bin to run the command /usr/bin/git it also doesnt seem to have permissions to cd cd /var/www/site –  Symba Mar 18 at 16:47

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I changed permissions to the script and the script: chmod u+x /path/to/script.sh and was able to execute the script. I'm not sure if it was necessary to change to root user, but I changed to root throughout the process

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