Current Cron Log

[Erik Norgaard]

Nicky wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> I have a script that is started through cron. This script contains
> several steps, each step writes information to stdout, in case of errors
> to stderr. 
> The total script runs for about 6 hours and then the the combined output
> of all steps is mailed to root.
> 
> However, is there a way to 'examine/monitor' the scripts progress.
> Perhaps cron keeps a temporary/current logfile of my scripts output,
> which i can look at?

check /usr/sbin/periodic, it's a shell script. Also, it seems to be 
possible to send output to a file instead or also, see periodic.conf(5)

Cheers, Erik
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