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Re: Cron does not run.



On Tuesday 02 February 2010 11:51:35 Sthu Deus wrote:
> Thank You for Your time and answer, Boyd:
> >Actually, yes.  I missed this part in the original email.  If a cronjob
> >generates any output it will (normally) be mailed to the owner of the
> > crontab. For jobs under /etc/cron.daily, this is root.
> 
> Should cron not to store somewhere reports of the jobs it run in anyway
>  (regardless mail)?

AFAIK, it does not.  Being unable to deliver local mail (as cron tries to do) 
was unheard of on the systems cron was originally developed for.

The fact that some cronjob ran (but not it's success or output) might be found 
in /var/log/syslog or /var/log/auth.log.
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