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Hi All,

We are trying to build a GUI to show the cron job status for any host. In Linux the cron log is created in /var/log/cron. But I am unable to find any end time details for a script in Linux log. I could see the start time and end time in Solaris cron log which exists in /var/cron/log.

Is there any way to find the end time in Linux?

Really appreciate if anyone can help in this.

Thanks
Jinu

Hi,

It might depend on which cron is used, but I see the following in my cron log:

Quote:

Nov 12 08:35:00 exile fcron[2992]: Job /usr/lib/sa/sa1 & started for user admin (pid 2993)
Nov 12 08:35:02 exile fcron[2992]: Job /usr/lib/sa/sa1 & completed

As you might have noticed, I'm using fcron, but I do believe all cron daemons log this information.

If cron sends its information to syslogd, you might want to check /etc/syslog.conf to see what is logged and where it is logged (maybe these notice messages are send to another log file).

Hope this helps.