CronJob not running

Question

I have set up a cronjob for root user in ubuntu environment as follows by typing crontab -e

  34 11 * * * sh /srv/www/live/CronJobs/daily.sh
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Answer 1

I want to add 2 points that I learned:

1. Cron config files put in /etc/cron.d/ should not contain a dot (.). Otherwise, it won't be read by cron.
2. If the user running your command is not in /etc/shadow. It won't be allowed to schedule cron.

Refs:

1. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/en/man8/cron.8.html
2. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CronHowto