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Does Crontab have a log?

David White — Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:01:01 GMT

Sorry for such a trivial question(I'm a Trainee Unix Admin), but does Crontab have a log where I can see why a job failed?

thanks

Dave

Re: Does Crontab have a log?

Rainer_1 — Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:04:35 GMT

The logfile is /var/adm/cron/log
If anything from a cron job comes to stdout or stderr you get a mail for root.

Re: Does Crontab have a log?

federico_3 — Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:06:42 GMT

the crontab log is:
/var/adm/cron/log

federico

Re: Does Crontab have a log?

Carlos Fernandez Riera — Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:08:12 GMT

Cron log is on /usr/lib/cron/log

Unless you use redirection of standard output and error on your cron

1 * * * * * command > /tmp/log 2>&1

all output is redirected to users mail.

Re: Does Crontab have a log?

CHRIS_ANORUO — Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:18:29 GMT

THE CRONTAB HAS A LOG IN /VAR/ADM/CRON/LOG AND FOR FAILED MESSAGES, A MAIL IS SENT OT ROOT. LOG IN AS ROOT AND TYPE MAILX TO READ THE MAILS.

Re: Does Crontab have a log?

f. halili — Fri, 10 Nov 2000 15:35:43 GMT

Cron has a log file which is :

/var/adm/cron/log

- fnhalili

Re: Does Crontab have a log?

Dan Hetzel — Tue, 14 Nov 2000 07:58:21 GMT

Hi,

All cron jobs are logged to /var/adm/cron/log, unless they are specifically redirected both dtdin and stderr. (like in >/tmp/mylog 2>&1)

In other words, all character stream that would normally show up on a terminal if the job was run manually, will be in that logfile.

Dan

Dan
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Re: Does Crontab have a log?

Josee Bourget-Thuma — Fri, 09 Feb 2001 14:29:18 GMT

I prefer to read the mail sent to ROOT by reading the file in /var/mail/root. I monitor all files in /var/mail for size. You can mail this /var/mail/root file to yourself daily to help you remember to check it.

Have fun!
Josee