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look for an error log to understand what went 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 mai

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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 is the cron / crontab log? up vote 375 down vote favorite 106 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/207/where-are-cron-errors-logged I want to verify if my cron job is executing and what time. I believe there is a log for my sudo crontab -e jobs, but where? I searched google and it I found references to look in /var/log (which I do not see anything with 'cron') and to edit the file /etc/syslog.conf which I also do not have. ? cron log crontab share|improve this question edited Aug 11 '11 at 14:11 Jorge Castro 24k91386589 asked Aug 11 http://askubuntu.com/questions/56683/where-is-the-cron-crontab-log '11 at 12:06 Scott Szretter 2,015397 add a comment| 5 Answers 5 active oldest votes up vote 428 down vote On a default installation the cron jobs get logged to /var/log/syslog You can see just cron jobs in that logfile by running grep CRON /var/log/syslog If you haven't reconfigured anything,the entries will be in there. share|improve this answer edited Aug 16 '12 at 10:27 user76204 answered Aug 12 '11 at 10:58 Richard Holloway 14.9k43449 16 If there is no MTA installed, cron just throws the job output away. –Barry Kelly Nov 18 '13 at 23:19 1 The cron log may be in another file in the /var/log/ directory. Check for cron.log or equivalent. –Navigatron Jan 31 '14 at 10:21 use journalctl | grep cron on systemd systems –Student Nov 12 '14 at 19:57 this doesn't give me output from the job. it just gives a generic message that the cron was processed. –chovy Dec 12 '15 at 0:34 I have no MTA installed, but the output is saved to /var/log/syslog. It rotates daily. –springloaded Aug 27 at 22:16 | show 1 more comment up vote 125 down vote You can create a cron.log file to contain just the CRON entries that show up in syslog. Note that CRON jobs will still show up in syslog if you follow the following directions. Open the file /etc/rsyslog.d/5

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