Thanks to:
Nikola Milutinovic <Nikola.Milutinovic_at_ev.co.yu>
Knut Hellebų <Knut.Hellebo_at_nho.hydro.com>
Alan Angulo <alan_at_esu.edu>
Fred Ziegler <fred_ziegler_at_bmc.com>
"Serguei Patchkovskii" <patchkov_at_ucalgary.ca>
"Donn Aiken" <daiken_at_regents.edu>
Indeed there is a log file, /var/adm/cron/log. It appears, though that you
have to start cron with a -d option to get any useful information in the
file. Alas, too late for that.
The primary suspect is Daylight Savings Time. Perhaps cron gets confused
about what time it really is.
Bruce.
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Union College Email: sennb_at_union.edu
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At 03:39 PM 04/02/2000 -0400, Original Question:
>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.
Received on Tue Apr 25 2000 - 14:43:52 NZST