Logging cron jobs on ubuntu
-Monday, April 06, 2009 By: Jon Kinney
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Enable the cron.log in Ubuntu
By default, Ubuntu disables the cron log, so you need to turn it on, and additionally create the log file before you can start tailing that log.
Use these steps to get your log on…
- Pico /var/log/cron.log and save out the blank file
- Edit /etc/syslog.conf and uncomment the line starting with cron.*
- Run /etc/init.d/sysklogd restart
- Run /etc/init.d/cron restart
Then to watch your cron jobs rock your server execute this command…
- tail -f /var/log/cron.log
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