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arnabchowdhury83

10-21-2011 06:29 AM

crontab

how to check time length of last running crontab job ?? plz help me plz plz :redface:

macemoneta

10-21-2011 06:49 AM

This will tell you the start time of the last run cron job:

Code:

tail -n1 /var/log/cron

If the job is still running, you can get the run time from 'ps' on the process id from the above.

16pide

10-21-2011 08:07 AM

I would suggest using a bash script such as this:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

echo starting cron>/var/tmp/cron-execution.txt

date >>/var/tmp/cron-execution.txt

# insert your true cron here

echo stopping cron>>/var/tmp/cron-execution.txt

date >>/var/tmp/cron-execution.txt

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