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Where are Cron Job errors logged?

December 26, 2016 7.6k views
Apache DigitalOcean Development PHP Storage System Tools Ubuntu Ubuntu 16.04

As the title states. Where are the crontab errors logged and what is the name of the file? I'm not sure what the name of the file is so I have no clue what to search on with find -iname "file name here"..

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ryanpq MOD December 27, 2016
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By default on Ubuntu your cron output should be logged to /var/log/syslog If you would like cron to log to it's own file you can edit /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf and uncomment the line 

#cron.*

Then run

sudo service rsyslog restart

and your cron jobs will be logged to /var/log/cron.log

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