Question
Where are Cron Job errors logged?
- Posted December 26, 2016
- ApacheDigitalOceanDevelopmentPHPStorageSystem ToolsUbuntuUbuntu 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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Accepted Answer
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
