Did my Cron job run?

ryedunn · 02-25-2004, 08:12 AM

I have looked around and I am having problems finding an answer to this very basic question..

My first, and only, cron job is to go look for anti-virus updates. The problem is, how do I know if it ran successfully? Is there an easy way to check?

46 14,23 * * * /usr/local/f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl -cron

Thank you,
The Gnubie

lone_nut · 02-25-2004, 08:51 AM

How about replacing the line with this one (it requries root acces to write to /var/log/ directory though)
46 14,13 * * * /usr/local/f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl -cron; echo "Virus update ran " `date` >>/var/log/virus.log

ryedunn · 02-25-2004, 08:59 AM

Sweet, Thank you for your help