Where is logged cron activity?

[Robert Moskowitz]

I looked at man rsync enough times to figure out how to log its output.  
with no success.

So I asked Dr. Google:

--log-file=my.log

sigh.  I told you my search foo is weak.  I blame my dyslexia...

So I don't THIS time need piping.

On 5/29/25 7:44 PM, Robert Moskowitz via ubuntu-users wrote:
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> On 5/29/25 7:29 PM, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
>> On Thu, 2025-05-29 at 18:06 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>> /var/log/cron
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>>> Pointers please?
>> 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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