Where is Tiger's cron log file?

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Where is Tiger's cron log file?

This is a simple question. Where does Tiger log cron jobs at? Back in 10.3 I'm sure they were in /var/log/system.log or maybe it was /var/log/cron.log. Either way they are not being logged in those places now and I can't find where they are.

Any help would be appreciated.

(And, yes, I do know that cron tasks are being executed.)

Thanks

Posted on Aug 9, 2005 7:47 AM

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Answer 1

Aug 18, 2005 5:22 PM in response to Ronald Robson

launchd is the new kid on the block now that cron has been put out to pasture.

See http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/launchd. 8.html

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Ronald Robson Author

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Aug 18, 2005 8:13 PM in response to Michael Bradshaw

Yes, I'm aware of launchd and the fact that is taking over from cron. However, cron is still there and Apple itself still uses it for certain functions, e.g. triggering junkmail bayes scripts. So, I'm still looking for where cron dumps its logs to.

--Ron

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Answer 3

Aug 22, 2005 7:12 AM in response to Ronald Robson

OK - You might have to stop cron and run it manually with debug as shown here Mike Zimmerman1, "cron jobs not running" #1, 07:24am Aug 22, 2005 CDT

The output of each command is mailed (using traditional unix mail - not integrated into the Mail app or anything like that), not logged - so check using mailx (or mail command) from the unix prompt.

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