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Find out with wich loglevel cron is running

Hi all,

i'm running a Debian and an Ubuntu (12.04 LTS) Server. Last night some cronjobs failed and Im trying to find out, how wo change the loglevel for cron.

In the internet I found that one can add a line

Code:

EXTRA_OPTS="-L 2"

to /etc/default/cron or /etc/cron.conf respectively. Unfortunately I cannot seem to find out if cron was really started with this new option.

Here my question: Is it possible to find out with which commandline exactly a daemon was started? I don't see any additional logentries compared with before the change.

Markus

I think you need to debug the job itself, not the cron. You can try to write a small wrapper/starter script to log what you want and start the job.

About question of reading command line, you can use

Code:

ps -Af | grep cron

to find it.

Thanks to eSelix, the f option for ps is what I'm looking for.

Markus