Hourly cronjob does not work

Question

So just to sketch the outlines of this problem, i made an cronjob that should be executed on each full hour like this: 0:00, 1:00, 2:00. In all the manuals/tutorials i found on the internet they say putting in a crontab like this would do the trick:

0 * * * * echo "HourlyCronJobTest" > /home/sajvanderzeeuw/myCRON.txt

Unfortunately this does not work. Every other number of minutes does work. E.g. the job below which creates the text file at every 35 minutes of the hour. 0:35, 1:35 etc etc.

35 * * * * echo "HalfHourCronjobTest" > /home/sajvanderzeeuw/myCRON2.txt

So there is a easy way to circumvent this by simple doing it at 1 minute past the hour. But i just wonder if someone can show me why this happens.

Answer 1

Problem is solved. It was not due to a bug in Cron but it was because the LDAP client of our compute cluster was restarted on the hour. So therefore all CRONjobs scheduled at this time weren't executed, because the cluster couldn't recognize user IDs.