i am trying to set up a cron job on one of my EC2 instances on AWS via crontab. Doing following steps:
- Log into my server via ssh (with user
ec2-user
) and runningcrontab -l
to check if any crontabs are running for existing users. There isn't any. - Run nano
crontab -e
to create a new crontab file forec2-user
. File created and saved. When runningcrontab -l
getting outputno crontab file for ec2-user
and obviouslycron
is not running.
When running ps -ef | grep cron | grep -v grep cron
seem to be running ok. Output is:
root 2460 1 0 13:12 ? 00:00:00 crond
I have had a look into a few resource on the web:
But still not working. Seems like something is wrong when creating a crontab file for ec2-user
but i cannot seem to figure out what is wrong.