cron.hourly “exited with return code 1”

Question

I'm currently on Linux Ubuntu 14.04 (I think).

So I previously had a cron.daily script which was working fine. I decided to use the same script but move it to cron.hourly and now it wont work.

/etc/cron.hourly/dstealth-watch-tv

#!/bin/bash

times=$(date)
echo "${times}:" >> /var/log/dstealth/watch-tv.log
/usr/bin/curl --silent http://watch.dstealth.com/tv/refreshToken.php?k=secretRefreshKey >> /var/log/dstealth/watch-tv.log

I've given the file CHMOD: 755

The log file was created manually with CHMOD: 644 and is empty.

Then I used:

service cron reload

and waited several hours hoping for an output into my log file but it remains empty.

I've tried

run-parts --verbose /etc/cron.hourly

and this is the output I get:

/etc/cron.hourly/dstealth-watch-tv:
run-parts: failed to exec /etc/cron.hourly/dstealth-watch-tv: No such file or directory
run-parts: /etc/cron.hourly/dstealth-watch-tv exited with return code 1

This also did not result in anything being input into the log file. I'm not sure where I've gone wrong. Please assist.

Answer 1

Thanks to guidance from JWW, I posted on Unix & Linux Stack Exchange and someone was able to answer the question almost immediately.

The script was created essentially in Windows using NppFTP so the following command was required:

dos2unix /etc/cron.hourly/dstealth-watch-tv

• Credit goes to roaima