[nzlug] cron

[Nevyn]

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Nevyn <nevynh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Cliff Pratt <enkidu at cliffp.com> wrote:
>> Nevyn wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Brendan Murray <xasperated at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This one doesn't work ----- # a cron script that doesn't work echo
>>>> "ping"  >> /tmp/logfile ------
>>>>
>>>> This one does ------------- #! /bin/sh # a cron script that does
>>>> work echo "ping" >> /tmp/logfile
>>>
>>> Just figured it out. Turns out crontab appears to write an error log of
>>> your own tasks in your home directory under the name
>>> "dead.letter". So in my case, sudo -i got me into root's directory
>>> and having a look there "showed me the way...."
>>>
>> *cron* does that? Are you sure? Sounds more like whatever MTA you are
>> running would do that.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Cliff
>
> Right you are. Does anyone know how to enable cron to output a log file?

Think I've found it. Edit /etc/syslog.conf
uncomment the line that says cron.*  /var/log/cron.log
save and exit.
run sudo /etc/init.d/syslogd restart