Crontab logs

[Keith Smith]

Thanks Matt!!  What about errors - don't they get logged automatically?


On 2015-07-22 10:18, Matt Graham wrote:
>>> On 7/21/2015 3:28 PM, Keith Smith wrote:
>>>> Any idea why the error was not written to /var/log/cron ?
>> On 2015-07-21 19:14, George Toft wrote:
>>> Probably because it went into the mail?
> On 2015-07-21 19:45, Keith Smith wrote:
>> I'm not following.  What are you saying?
> 
> When a cron job runs, the default behavior of the cron daemon is to
> take that cron job's stdout and stderr and mail those things to the
> user who ran the job.  This is why many regular cron jobs have ">
> /dev/null" in their crontab after they've been debugged.  If you want
> the output of cron jobs to be written to syslog, on CentOS 6, you'd
> modify /etc/sysconfig/crond and add -s to the CRONDARGS variable and
> restart crond.

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Keith Smith