/home/myname/bin/script:

```
#!/bin/bash
ifconfig > /home/myname/foo

```

Crontab:

```
* * * * * /home/myname/bin/script

```

...waits 1 minute...

```
@@ 11:35:51 [myname@comp - ~]$ ls foo
-rw-r--r-- 1 myname myname 0 Jul  7 11:35 foo
@@ 11:35:55 [myname@comp - ~]$ 

```

I can't figure out why foo would end up empty. Running the ifconfig command on the command line works exactly as you'd expect, dumping its output into a file just like normal. For reference, I'm running Ubuntu 8.04.