New task added in crontab not run - linux

At about 8:10 AM, I edited crontab tasks with "crontab -e", added a simple task which should run at 8:20 AM.
00 3 * * * sh /home/als6fd/bin/run1.sh
20 8 * * * sh echo "hello">>/home/als6fd/ggfan/1.txt
But it did not run at 8:20 AM. What may cause this problem?
If I call "/sbin/service crond reload", an error occurs.

problem fixed:
as current user does not have right to write to /home/als6fd/ggfan

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Please how do I fix my Crontab issue?
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Because the current configuration 0 0,12 * * * rm -rf /home/www/temp/* means:
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I am running a cron job which will run at every 5 minutes.
Now Let's say i have started job on 04:02 so it will execute at every 5 minutes so will execute on 04:07, 04:12, 04:17 etc...
Let's say i have started job on 13:18 so it will executed at 13:23, 13:28, 13:33 etc...
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So how to achieve this?
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this should be what you want .

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I am new to ubuntu. I wants to run a cron job 1 hr after GMT 00:00 hr daily from my ubuntu machine.
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Step 1 : Open crontab with command crontab -e
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I have a shell script that I can run with root user this way:
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Have you tried this? Also, a "1" in the hour field means 1am, not 1pm.
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