Where is logged cron activity?

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 06:06:59PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz via ubuntu-users wrote:
>I am a Centos/Fedora and I am use to seeing what cron is doing by 
>looking at /var/log/cron
>
>No such file on my Ubuntu 22 system and using locate, I can't find a 
>similar file.

It should be in /var/log/syslog; if you don't have that, try installing 
the rsyslog package.

You can also see just the logging output from cron and nothing else 
using "journalctl -u cron.service".  journalctl has many options for 
filtering the output; see its manual page.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]