[Gllug] Watching cron jobs during execution -- how

[Iain Gray]

by default the output of any cron will be mailed to the owner of the
crontab unless you set a
 MAILTO=
line at the top.

by simply redirecting the output of the command to a file would work:

01 01 * * * yum -y upgrade > /tmp/yumout.`date +%d%m%y`.log

messages about the cron jobs are in /var/log/cron

Hope this helps

Iain
On 27/09/06, Alan Peery <peery at io.com> wrote:
> I've just introduced a "yum -y upgrade" command on one of my machines to
> keep the machine security patched while I travel.  The command has
> kicked off nicely, but it appears to be processing more than I expected
> after the yum I did yesterday.  So I'd like to look at the output of the
> cron-launched yum.
>
> I could wrap a script around it and get the access to the output that
> way, but I am hoping for something more direct.
>
> Alan
>
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