Crontab: Set to run every hour but runs every 15 minutes. Why?

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Dear woolmilkporc

That's not what you told me in this post - See accepted solution.

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/26977577/Cron-Not-working.html

That's why I deleted my comment - I was totally on the wrong track - don't have much time at this very moment.

Sorry again, I obviously confused root's crontab with the system crontab - I've been in a hurry.

Now that our meeting has been cancelled I'm back.

Your cron job should indeed run every 40 minutes. I don't see any obvious reason why it should do something else.

Maybe you should restart the cron daemon, just to be sure?

Check as root - "crontab -l"
See if the changes you made reflect on the Cron.

Nice to have you back.

I had is set to:

0 * * * *

And it fired every 15 minutes from the hour. (10:00,  10:15 ...etc)

I changed it to

40 * * * *

Now it fires like this (11:40, 11:55 ...etc)

Dear legolasthehansy

[root ~]# crontab -l
[root ~]# 

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I'm using Centos 6. When I run the command I get nothing.

"crontab -l" would only work on root's crontab, not on /etc/crontab

Same confusion as mine before.

Did you recycle crond?

Dear legolasthehansy

I looked in /var/log/cron

There is only a record for the hourly cron jobs.

I have Plesk installed. Do you think it could be to blame?

Not sure if Plesk has a utility to setup CRON's. But it should still show up on the files.

If you know the users allowed to access this server,
can you do this,

crontab -l <username1> (This would list the CRON's setup by username1)

You can get the list of users in the server by doing a cat on /etc/passwd and get the list of recent logged in users using the 'last' command.

Great Support!