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My cronjob triggers the script late by 6 minutes.
/var/cron/log shows that it got triggered at the right time then where can I track, the late starting of the script.
Is there some queue mechanism, some log?

This happens sometimes, not daily. but it affects me, whenever it happens.

Logging is there in the script. the script itself appears to be triggered late. The script captures the timestamp when it was triggered.

The issue seems to be in the queue.
Cron puts the job into the queue, but it gets picked up late.

What is the script? Do you have logging functionality in the script? If the cron log shows it starting on time, perhaps your script is taking 6 minutes to run.