Crontab logs

[Matt Graham]

>> 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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