There may be a better way, but I got cron-debugging info turned on by
starting the cron daemon with:
/usr/sbin/cron -d
>DEC Unix 4.0D.
>
>Does anyone know if there is a way to have the cron daemon log it's
>activity.
>
>This morning a cron job failed to run. My current theory is that it was
>never launched by cron. The evidence is for this theory is that the last
>access time on the script did not reflect the expected launch time, 5:10
>AM
>this morning.
>
>I'll RTMF tomorrow morning.
>
>TIA.
>
>Bruce.
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Regards,
Fred
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