Re: Searching system logfile for crontab jobs?

In article <4845a143$0$6556$9b4e6d93@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
wmeister@xxxxxxxxxxx (Wolfgang Meister) wrote:

Normally I can redirect the intended output with a command into a file
similar to:

crontabcommand >/ust/local/www/mylogfile

But what happens if the crontab job aborts without having the chance to
write some output into the logifle (e.g. because /usr/local/www/ does not
exist
or the syntax of the command is not correct).

I guess these kind of basic information are written to some extra system
logfiles.

Where can I find the system logfile for the crontab jobs. When which crontab
job was
started and if it is exited with witch error.

Wolfgang

Any output from a cron job is mailed to the user, it's not written to a
log file.

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