Where is logged cron activity?

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 5/29/25 7:50 PM, bruce wrote:
> just lurking..  and forgi
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> 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:
>>     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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> hi..
>       just lurking
>       did u run ur test cmd  by itself first to verify  
> --user/permissions etc
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>      try doing same with something like "date" as well

Lots of testing.  Finally did get >> to work.  Then I saw I did not need 
it.  rsync has its own output to file...

And testing that worked.  So I should be good for the real 4am rsync run.
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