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How to configure crond to send cron job output to the system journal
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How to configure crond to send cron job output to the system journal

Keywords: fedora 20, systemd, cron, crond, output, stdout, journal

Problem: You want to capture and read the output of your cron jobs, but the output isn't being logged anywhere.

Solution: Add an argument to crond.

Step 1. Open /etc/sysconfig/crond for editing.

$ sudo nano /etc/sysconfig/crond

Step 2. Add the -s switch to CRONDARGS so that it looks like the following:

# Settings for the CRON daemon.
# CRONDARGS= :  any extra command-line startup arguments for crond
CRONDARGS=-s

Step 2. Restart the crond service.

$ sudo systemctl reload-or-restart crond.service

Step 3. Wait for crond to run your cron job at the next scheduled interval. Afterwards, examine the journal for the output.

$ journalctl --boot | grep CMDOUT
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