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Find Why a Cron Job Never Runs or Fails Silently

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Linux & Systems beginner 6 min read $0.01 Updated 2026-10-18

Diagnoses cron jobs that do not run or fail without output: cron daemon and logs, the minimal environment and PATH, percent signs, /etc/cron.d file rules, timezones, overlap locking, and dead-man switch monitoring.

The script works in your shell and does nothing from cron. The cause is almost always the environment, a percent sign, a file permission or output going nowhere. Check them in the right order.

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