How-to for crontab

[chenel]

even when the crontab had:

* * * * * echo "Print this every minute"

You'd need to redirect the output from 'echo' to a file if you want to see anything -- echo doesn't run in a particular terminal so you'd never see it otherwise. Try something like

 * * * * * /bin/date >> /home/[your user]/test.out

That should append the current date and time to test.out in your home directory every minute. Let us know if that produces any results