Checking the cron process in unix

#1 (**permalink**) 01-06-2009

Hi Experts,

Is there any command by which i can chk that the cron process is running fine? Say i have scheduled the cron to run at 10 o clock every monday,Do i need to wait for the time it runs and then chk using ps -ef?

Please shed some light.

Thanks
Ashok.

dr.house · #2 (**permalink**) 01-06-2009

Did you check your system's log files? At least on my machines, the cron daemon log's its activities to either </var/log/cron> or </var/log/syslog>.

#3 (**permalink**) 01-06-2009

I checked in the path /var/log and i could see that the file cron has logs in today's date and that too in current timestamp. Thanks for this.

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