Crontab not running

[Neddie]

Hi all.
I'm sure Im doing something stupid but I cant get any crontab jobs to run :0(
Even a simple one like this does nothing
1 * * * * sudo touch /home/pi/test.txt

that command works from the command prompt.
I've tried crontab -e and sudo crontab -e , neither work.
Any ideas?
Cheers
Ned

[Ernst]

Hi all.
I'm sure Im doing something stupid but I cant get any crontab jobs to run :0(
Even a simple one like this does nothing
1 * * * * sudo touch /home/pi/test.txt

that command works from the command prompt.
I've tried crontab -e and sudo crontab -e , neither work.
Any ideas?
Cheers
Ned

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1 * * * * /usr/bin/touch /home/pi/test.txt

[rpdom]

Your cron jobs should work.

crontab -e will edit the crontab for the current user (pi). I just tested this

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1 * * * * touch /home/pi/crontest

and it worked. A file was created at 12:01 as expected.
(I omitted sudo because the touch command doesn't need it in this case)

sudo crontab -e will edit the crontab for the root user. sudo is not needed in the crontab entry as the commands are already being run by the root user.

Are you running a standard Raspbian OS? It looks like you are.

[RaTTuS]

and don't use sudo in cron