From: lws4art@gmail.com   
      
   Markus Robert Kessler wrote:   
   > Hi all,   
   >   
   > maybe someone has made similar experience:   
   >   
   > I have a "shared webhosting" account on a virtual machine, running   
   >   
   >     Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS.   
   >   
   > On this virtual host we have full crontab access and up to now this   
   > worked as it should. But:   
   >   
   > Some minutes ago I got a message from a friend, saying some monitoring   
   > had stopped on this machine this afternoon, 10 hours ago or so. I checked   
   > the crontab and there was no change made to it for weeks, but I could   
   > confirm that it suddenly refused to work.   
   >   
   > Since it was pointless to contact the "support" (LOL...), so, just for   
   > interest I tried to "crontab -e" and I left if with ":wq", though I did   
   > NOT change anything.   
      
   ":wq" is vim's command to save and exit. So maybe you edited your   
   crontab but never finalized the config by actually writing the file to   
   disk...   
      
   >   
   > The funny thing is, that from that point on crontab worked again.   
   >   
   > So, my question:   
   >   
   > Does anyone have an idea what could have happened there?   
   >   
   > Thanks -- I highly appreciate any hint!   
   >   
   > Best regards,   
      
   A little log check can tell you if the cron job is firing   
      
   journalctl -u cron | grep CMD   
      
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