cron job won't run!

[shinydonut]

Hi,
I'm trying to run a cron job that will change the ownership of a file in my home directory. But for some reason, the job won't run! Here's what the line looks like:

5 0,12 * * * /usr/bin/chown nobody /export/home/user/example.txt

That's all on one line. When I check the /var/cron/log file, there's no trace of that command running. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks a bunch!

Rich

 

[robbLA]

Is this the last entry in your cron file? If so, you will need a blank line following the last item.
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robb

 

[trunix]

How did you edit your crontab file ?
If you used vi then you will need to restart crontab to pick up the changed file. Just type crontab <filename>
However if you used crontab -e then this will have been done automatically.