I know that cron is supposed to be “rock solid” and reliable and everything. But I cannot seem to get one simple job setup correctly

What have I done?

• I’ve created a bash script and made it executable for everyone chmod a+x scriptname.sh
• I tested it by executing it manually. It checks if a certain process is running and restarts it if necessary. It works
• I checked cron is running with ps -ef | grep cron. It’s showing me /usr/sbin/cron -f for root
• I ran crontab -e and added the script like this

*/5 * * * * /full/path/to/script.sh

When saving, crontab told me that is has been installing new crontab

Now, when I kill the process and wait for much more than 5 minutes … nothing happens. The process will not be restarted.

I must be doing something very wrong very stupidly.