Does Crontab have a log?

[David White]

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

[Rainer_1]

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

[federico_3]

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


federico

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

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.

[CHRIS_ANORUO]

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.

[f. halili]

Cron has a log file which is :

/var/adm/cron/log

- fnhalili

[Dan Hetzel]

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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[Josee Bourget-Thuma]

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