How to log cron jobs?

* * * * * myjob.sh >> /var/log/myjob.log 2>&1

will log all output from the cron job to /var/log/myjob.log

You might use mail to send emails. Most systems will send unhandled cron job output by email to root or the corresponding user.


By default cron logs to /var/log/syslog so you can see cron related entries by using:

grep CRON /var/log/syslog

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