[nzlug] cron

[Nevyn]

Does anyone know if there are any special steps required to get cron
going in Ubuntu?

I'm trying to get cron to run a task for me every 5 minutes or so. So I ran

"sudo crontab -e"

as I need the job to be run as root. Entered in the following line:

*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/whatever

whatever has an echo command to write a date to a log file (for
initial testing). However, it appears the script never gets run. I
tried running the script manually and it does as it's supposed to do.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Nevyn.