Where is logged cron activity?

[bruce]

just lurking..  and forgi

On Thu, May 29, 2025, 7:45 PM Robert Moskowitz via ubuntu-users <
ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> On 5/29/25 7:29 PM, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
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> On Thu, 2025-05-29 at 18:06 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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> /var/log/cron
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> Pointers please?
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> The following answer is probably still correct.
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> "On a default installation cron jobs will be logged to
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> /var/log/syslog
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> You can see just cron jobs in that logfile by running
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> grep CRON /var/log/syslog
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> Seeing the log messages now.
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> edited Oct 3, 2023 at 0:39" -https://askubuntu.com/questions/56683/where-is-the-cron-crontab-log
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> It is an established fact that my search foo is weak...
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> Anyway, I added the following to /etc/crontab to test out piping.
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> 45 * * * * root cat /root/test.txt >> /root/backup-updates.log
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> and /root/backup-updates.log is not getting updated.  Both files exist.
> This should run every hour at :45
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> And nothing in syslog about this activity.
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> I want to run a rsync in crontab and capture its output to a log...
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hi..
      just lurking
      did u run ur test cmd  by itself first to verify  --user/permissions
etc

     try doing same with something like "date" as well

   -bruce


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