Log of cron actions on OS X
- by Doug Harris
Does the cron which comes with OS X log its actions anywhere?
I'm not looking for output of any particular cron job, but rather log of what cron is doing. On a couple linux machines I've checked, there's /var/log/cron which has contents like:
Apr 26 11:00:01 localhost crond[27755]: (root) CMD (/root/bin/mysql-backup)
Apr 26 11:01:01 localhost crond[27892]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
Apr 26 11:07:01 localhost crond[28138]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/bin/python /home/
user1/scripts/pythonscript.py)
Apr 26 11:18:18 localhost crontab[28921]: (user2) LIST (user2)
Apr 26 11:18:22 localhost crontab[28929]: (user2) BEGIN EDIT (user2)
Apr 26 11:18:59 localhost crontab[28929]: (user2) REPLACE (user2)
This shows when jobs ran, when users viewed or edited crontabs, etc. This stuff is nowhere that I've found on my Snow Leopard machine.
