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the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Unix & Linux Questions Tags Users cron job location linux Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Unix & Linux Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for users of Linux, FreeBSD and other Un*x-like operating systems. Join them; it only takes cron job log files a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Where are cron errors logged? up vote 71 down vote favorite 11 If I setup cron jobs incorrectly they appear to silently fail. Where should I look for an error log to understand what went

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wrong? cron scheduling logs share|improve this question edited May 4 '13 at 20:26 Anthon 47.4k1462125 asked Aug 11 '10 at 2:19 Brian Lyttle 511169 add a comment| 8 Answers 8 active oldest votes up vote 62 down vote As others have pointed out, cron will email you the output of any program it runs (if there is any output). So, if you don't get any output, there are basically three possibilities: crond could not even start a shell for running the program or sending email crond had troubles mailing the output, or the mail was lost. the program did not produce any output (including error messages) Case 1. is very unlikely, but something should have been written in the cron logs. Cron has an own reserved syslog facility, so you should have a look into /etc/syslog.conf (or the equivalent file in your distro) to see where messages of facility cron are sent. Popular destinations include /var/log/cron, /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog. In case 2., you should inspect the mailer daemon logs: messages from the Cron daemon usually appear as from root@yourhost. You can use a MAILTO=...

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Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top How to detect error in cron jobs up vote 3 down vote favorite 1 The reasons why a cron job may fail http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/207/where-are-cron-errors-logged is really very large. Most common reasons may be, Syntax error Using executable without proper path Using a shell variable which is not defined in cron environment Attempt to open a GUI without specifying DISPLAY And so on... Sometimes it is really difficult to understand which error is preventing the job to be executed. Is there a way to detect error(s) in a cron jobs? cron troubleshooting share|improve this question asked Feb 8 '14 at 19:06 souravc 13.7k34772 add a comment| 1 Answer http://askubuntu.com/questions/418237/how-to-detect-error-in-cron-jobs 1 active oldest votes up vote 2 down vote accepted Setup Local Mail and get cron job output mails When a cron job starts successfully or fails to execute for some reason cron daemon automatically sends an email to the user who set the cron job. That mail contains the description of a successful job or the detailed report why the particular cron job failed. If your local mail system is not set you will not receive those mails. The cron job output emails will just die in a local mail spool folder. So you need to set up your mailer daemon to read those mails. See this answer on How read local email in thunderbird to get all your local mails. If your cronjob fails you will receive a mail stating the reason of failure. This is one of the best way to detect the error in setting a cron job. Alternate ways According to this answer one can get errors of a cronjob in a log file using redirection. But you need to set the redirection with your cron job and specify the log file by yourself. And the /var/log/syslog file is always there to check if your cron job is running as you expected or not. share|improve this answer edited Feb 9 '14 at 14:32 answered Feb 8 '14 at 19:06 souravc 13.7k34772 add a comment| Your Answer draft saved draft discarded Sign up or log in Sign up using Goog

here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4811738/cron-job-log-how-to-log posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2012/07/crontab-log/ a minute: Sign up Cron Job Log - How to Log? up vote 93 down vote favorite 19 I want to know how I can see exactly what the cron jobs are doing on each execution. Where are the log files cron job located? Or can I send the output to my email? I have set the email address to send the log when the cron job runs but I haven't received anything yet. logging crontab share|improve this question edited Sep 29 '13 at 15:19 Nakilon 19.5k86186 asked Jan 27 '11 at 0:20 Adrian M. 1,62393146 add a comment| 5 Answers 5 active oldest votes up vote 150 down vote accepted * * * * * myjob.sh >> /var/log/myjob.log 2>&1 will log all output cron job error from the cron job to /var/log/myjob.log You might use mail to send emails. Most systems will send unhandled cron job output by email to root or the corresponding user. share|improve this answer edited Jun 19 '14 at 15:56 answered Jan 27 '11 at 0:28 Spliffster 2,99321417 31 Description of what means 2>&1: stackoverflow.com/questions/818255/in-the-bash-shell-what-is‌-21 –Yamaneko Sep 26 '12 at 14:26 1 what could be the issue if this logfile is never created? –clamp Dec 20 '13 at 10:57 7 FWIW, If you want both stderr and stdout in the log, the 2>&1 has to come after the indirection: myjob.sh >> /var/log/myjob.log 2>&1 –Dan Lecocq Apr 23 '14 at 17:08 Spliffster, could you update your answer, I believe @DanLecocq is correct. –brooks94 Jun 18 '14 at 14:00 brooks94 done.. –Spliffster Jun 19 '14 at 15:58 | show 3 more comments up vote 33 down vote By default cron logs to /var/log/syslog so you can see cron related entries by using: grep CRON /var/log/syslog http://askubuntu.com/questions/56683/where-is-the-cron-crontab-log share|improve this answer answered Jan 30 '13 at 3:52 Matthew Lock 6,02054771 1 Wouldn't it be /var/log/syslog.log –Nick Fury Feb 10 '13 at 7:07 1 doesn't need to have *.log extension, those are plain text files. –Piero Sep 9 '13 at 19:22 I don't have in on Mac OS X Mountain Lion. –Nakilon Sep 29 '13 at 15:20 2 On ubuntu 12.04, default is without .log, i.e. /var/log/syslog &n

it daily. How do I verify whether the backup cron script job ran successfully? Also, I have several echo statements inside my backup.sh shell script. How do I save the output of my script to a log file when it is executed as a cron job? Answer: Let us say that you've added the backup.sh to your crontab as shown below to execute it at midnight every day. $ crontab -e 59 23 * * * /home/john/bin/backup.sh To verify whether the this job got executed successfully or not, check the /var/log/cron file, which contains information about all the cron jobs that gets executed in your system. As you see from the following output, john's cron job got executed succesfully. $ tail /var/log/cron Oct 8 22:00:00 dev-db crond[18340]: (root) CMD (/bin/sh /home/root/bin/system_check &) Oct 8 23:00:00 dev-db crond[20348]: (oracle) CMD (/bin/sh /home/oracle/bin/cleanup.sh &) Oct 8 23:59:00 dev-db crond[20399]: (john) CMD (/bin/sh /home/john/bin/backup.sh &) Cron log contains the following information: Timestamp - The date and time when the cron job was executed Hostname - The hostname of the server (For example, dev-db) The cron deamon name and the PID. For example, crond[20399] Username - The username under which this cron job got executed. For example, john. CMD - Anything following this is the real command that got executed at that time. If there are any echo statements inside the backup.sh, you might want to log those into a file. In general, if the backup.sh cron script throws any output (including errors), you might want to log those to a log file. To do this, modify the crontab entry and add the output and error redirection as shown below. $ crontab -e 59 23 * * * /home/john/bin/backup.sh > /home/john/logs/backup.log 2>&1 In the above: > /home/john/logs/backup.log indicates that the stan