Where is logged cron activity?

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 5/29/25 7:51 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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.
>
I really got to read the journalctl manual yet again.  I am still too 
much of a hack at using it.

Poor excuse is it been a few years since I was putting together 
something new and needed to figure out why it was not going as I thought 
it should!