Crontab logs

George Toft george at georgetoft.com
Tue Jul 21 19:14:41 MST 2015


Probably because it went into the mail?

Regards,

George Toft

On 7/21/2015 3:28 PM, Keith Smith wrote:
>
> Any idea why the error was not written to /var/log/cron ?
>
>
>
> On 2015-07-20 15:39, Kevin Fries wrote:
>> Are you certain Cent6.6 has cron enabled? Many modern systems don't
>> any more since cron is going away once you transition to SystemD.  In
>> SystemD, whether a process starts and stays running, runs once and
>> quits, or runs periodically, you simply create a unit file, and
>> optionally a timer.  So... don't just assume cron is running, it may
>> no longer be started by default.  CentOS7 will use SystemD.
>>
>> Kevin
>> On Jul 20, 2015 4:34 PM, "Keith Smith" <techlists at phpcoderusa.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm on CentOS 6.6 and created a user crontab ( crontabe -e ). I
>>> added the line to run a PHP script at 36 after the hour.
>>>
>>> 36 * * * * /path/to/script/script.php
>>>
>>> Had a path wrong so it was failing.
>>>
>>> Was looking in /var/log/cron and it did not show the error.
>>>
>>> What am I missing?
>>>
>>> Thanks!!
>>> Keith
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