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Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 12:05:52 +0100
From: Vincent Cunniffe <vincent@cunniffe.net>
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To: ilug <ilug@linux.ie>
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Checking that cronjobs actually ran?
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Wynne, Conor wrote:
> Hi ladies,
>
> I setup a cron job to do a full backup to tape drive there last night, but
> I'm just wondering how I can verify that it actually ran?
> I suppose that a mail will be sent to root as I ran crontab -e as root. Is
> that correct or should I be looking elsewhere?
/var/log/cron
Logs user, name of job run, and pid it ran as.
Regards,
Vin
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