crontab

arnabchowdhury83 · 10-21-2011, 06:29 AM

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

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