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Output redirection to a file, used inside script, is not working when executed from crontab
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logs/testpad1.log will behave differently depending on your current directory. It can also behave differently depending if cron is running as root or you are calling the script from your terminal.
The safe (and usually error correcting) thing to do is hard code the full path into the file name:
/home/me/scripts/logs/testpad1.log
/var/log/testpad1.log