Hii
Im having some difficulties with running a shell script from cron which I am unable to resolve for almost 2 days now.

For testing purposes, im trying this with simple shell script test.sh with chmod 777
------ test.sh ------
#!/bin/sh
#
echo asdasdasd
------

This script is located at /var
When I type /var/test.sh it runs perfectly and prints asdasdasd
When I type /var/test.sh > /home/log it writes asdasdasd to /home/log - works

The problem occurs whenever I add it as a cron job to var/spool/cron/crontab/root

there is: 11 10 * * * /var/test.sh > /home/log - however, at 10:11 there is no file at /home/log

Cron as a service works, forexample, every day at 4 am it makes this backup
sshpass -p xxxx rsync -avz -e ssh root@x.x.10.7:/data/backup/ /home/backups/isp_admin


However,
13 00 * * * cd /home mkdir asdasd
doesnt makes the folder

Where is the catch?
Thanksssss

Hi and welcome to LinuxQuestions!

The syntax is correct and indeed it should work, provided the crontab's owner has permissions to write in /home. You can check three things:

1. see if the cron log actually reports the execution of your job. Usually it is /var/log/cron and you should see an entry like this:
2. since you redirect only the standard output to /home/log, the standard error (if any) would be sent to the crontab's owner mailbox. You can check it from a terminal with the mail command.

3. see if the crontab's owner has permissions to run cron jobs. You can check the /etc/cron.deny and /etc/cron.allow files.

In any case, who is the crontab's owner? A regular user or root? And how did you edit the crontab (using the command crontab -e or something else)?

Edit: please note that the mkdir entry is wrong instead. It should be something like:
or mkdir /home/asdasd.

thanks for ur amazing reply!
the problem was that I used winscp and editted var spool cron crontab root file, instead of crontab -e