Completely unable to get a cron job to run anywhere

Hello members,

I have attempted to run a simple script as a cron job on an Esxi vCenter host.

Version 6.0 - latest.

I have tried crontab -e, placing script in cron.hourly, placing a file referencing the script in /etc/cron.d and running every 5 min.

it seems that crontab -3 references /var/spool/cron/tabs/root.

None of these methods worked. I have also stopped and restarted the cron pid

Is there any way to get a cron job I created to run from a script?

Thanks,

Eholz1