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> 
> *** I actually found my problem. I had to specify the cron like this
> 
> 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /bin/touch /tmp/i-was-here
> 
> intead of
> 
> 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * touch /tmp/i-was-here
> 
> This part is working ok now.
> 
Usually the reason is that in your fist line of crontab you might not
have

#!/bin/sh

I have found if I have that as the first line I usually don't have to
type out the entire path.


> 
> *** My problem here is that when I create user accounts on this web server,
> they cannot run "crontab -e" . I get the error message 
> 
> "bash: crontab: command not found"
> 
> There is no cron.allow, and cron.deny on this server in /etc/ . So anyone on
> this server can run cron. Right ??
> 
> At the moment I tried something different that works instead of 
> crontab -e, but I want them to be able to run "crontab -e" command.
> 
> Louis.

It sounds like their profile is not configued correctly. all my
users can run crontab, and execute crontab -e


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