Re: cron job issues..

On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Micah DesJardins wrote:

> I'm having issues getting a cronjob to run under Darwin
> (Ok, it's Mac OS Server 10.2.7 , but still! It's Darwin/BSD/OpenSource on
> the inside!)

> Is there any place cron would be dumping error messages? I'm mystified as to
> what's happening but as far as I can tell, the job simply isn't going off.

Standard (Vixie) cron uses the LOG_CRON facility and normally
syslog handles cron.info. On my BSD box, syslogd logs it to /var/cron/log.

Some systems log it to /var/log/messages and some to /var/log/cron.log.

grep -i cron in your logs?

Jeremy C. Reed
http://www.reedmedia.net/

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