Cron not running django command

Question

I have a django script that should be run at a specified time every day. I am trying to achieve this using crontab. The script is supposed to dump the database,

Answer 1

That reminds me of a very frustrating gotcha. Do you have a newline at the end of your crontab file? From man crontab:

...cron requires that each entry in a crontab end in a newline character. If the last entry in a crontab is missing the newline, cron will consider the crontab (at least partially) broken and refuse to install it.