var cron log file

Markus_87 · 10-28-2009, 11:55 AM

Hi. Is there an opportunity to write STDERR message to the /var/cron/log file when a job fails to execute? Or only the return codes can be written?

Tinkster · 10-28-2009, 02:27 PM

Hi,

welcome to LQ!

Cron is quite flexible, but you'll normally get the output of commands e-Mailed
rather than written to logs. What distro are you using?

Cheers,
Tink

Markus_87 · 10-28-2009, 02:35 PM

Tink, I am using Solaris 10. I want that the STDERR stream be caught by cron and written somewhere. In my situation, e-mailing is not an appropriate sollution.

chrism01 · 10-28-2009, 08:27 PM

Normally you'd just re-direct as per normal eg

5 5 25 * * /home/me/myprog >/home/me/myprog.log 2>&1

If cron itself has an issue, it usually emails the crontab owner or root, which you can read with cli prog mailx (or mail).
See also /var/cron/log.