Well, I have just made a little discovery: under recent distros (I’m using Ubuntu 9.10) the cron stuff is changed.
If you label your script with a name containing a dot, the cron job is not executed. (!!!)
Until now, I used to label my scripts like script.sh but now this is evil 🙂
This behaviour is due to run-parts (a program that runs all the executable files found in a directory).
From the run-parts manual: “If neither the –lsbsysinit option nor the –regex option is given then the names must consist entirely of upper and lower case letters, digits, underscores, and hyphens.”.
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