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Zhen
Asked: 2013-09-12 03:26:09 +0800 CST

How can I check cron task it's running? [duplicate]

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I put a cron script in /etc/cron.d:

[root@node ~]# cat /etc/cron.d/reconfig
0 */6 * * * root /root/bin/reconfig.pl

But I get no list of cron tasks for root:

[root@node ~]# crontab -l
no crontab for root

How can I check it's running ok?

It's a Scientific Linux 6.4 node.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer
    [root@node ~]# crontab -l
no crontab for root

    It displays this message because crontab -l list entries from user crontab and you edited just global crontab. If you want to edit users crontab just use this command:

    crontab -e

    To verify that your task has been executed just grep syslog:

    grep CRON /var/log/syslog
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