UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Thanks matrixmadhan. I could try that, but as I said before, I am not allowed to modify the cron entry (It's not my company's constratint, but imposed by our client). I know probably there is no way to do this, but is there anything which logs all processes start-stop time?

One last hope - If I have the process id of any process that has exited normally (or abnormally, whatever), can I get the time when it finished?

if cron mails the output then the time/date of when the script finished will be in the mail. Is this the case with HP UX?

Thanks wempy.
The HP-UX man page says:
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Be sure to redirect the standard output and standard error from commands. If this is not done, any enerated standard output or standard error is mailed to the user.
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Cuerrently the output of all scripts is directed to various log files. They do not contain time and date stamp. Just the output from the script ("Connected to DB", "Processing record nnnn" and so on)

If the log file to which debug messages and error messages are redirected donot contain time - stamping information ( it should have been time stamped debug message ) I think there is no way to retrieve the start and end time.

As far as I know, once the process is exited or terminated abnormally start and stop information of the process is not stored in process table entry as the process is a clean - no more existing