Crontab logs

Keith Smith techlists at phpcoderusa.com
Tue Jul 21 19:45:06 MST 2015


I'm not following.  What are you saying? Please elaborate.  Thanks!!

On 2015-07-21 19:14, George Toft wrote:
> 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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