Cron/Crontab Log Samples ------------------------ Crontab edited by root: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .. code-block:: console Sep 11 09:46:33 sys1 crontab[20601]: (root) BEGIN EDIT (root) Sep 11 09:46:39 sys1 crontab[20601]: (root) REPLACE (root) Sep 11 09:46:39 sys1 crontab[20601]: (root) END EDIT (root) This is root editing another user's crontab: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .. code-block:: console Sep 11 09:50:42 sys1 crontab[20230]: (root) BEGIN EDIT (user1) Sep 11 09:51:06 sys1 crontab[20230]: (root) REPLACE (user1) Sep 11 09:51:06 sys1 crontab[20230]: (root) END EDIT (user1) This is a user editing their own crontab: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .. code-block:: console Sep 11 09:51:39 sys1 crontab[20761]: (user1) BEGIN EDIT (user1) Sep 11 09:51:46 sys1 crontab[20761]: (user1) REPLACE (user1) Sep 11 09:51:46 sys1 crontab[20761]: (user1) END EDIT (user1) Additional samples: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .. code-block:: console Sep 11 15:20:57 copacabana crontab[7972]: (dcid) BEGIN EDIT (dcid) Sep 11 15:21:26 copacabana crontab[7972]: (dcid) REPLACE (dcid) Sep 11 15:21:26 copacabana crontab[7972]: (dcid) END EDIT (dcid) Sep 11 15:22:01 copacabana /USR/SBIN/CRON[7993]: (dcid) CMD (/bin/xx) Sep 11 15:22:01 copacabana /USR/SBIN/CRON[7992]: (dcid) MAIL (mailed 102 bytes of output but got status 0x0001 ) crond samples: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .. code-block:: console May 28 13:04:20 Lab7 crond[2843]: /usr/sbin/crond 4.4 dillon's cron daemon, started with loglevel notice May 28 13:04:20 Lab7 crond[2843]: no timestamp found (user root job sys-hourly) May 28 13:04:20 Lab7 crond[2843]: no timestamp found (user root job sys-daily) May 28 13:04:20 Lab7 crond[2843]: no timestamp found (user root job sys-weekly) May 28 13:04:20 Lab7 crond[2843]: no timestamp found (user root job sys-monthly) Jun 13 07:46:22 Lab7 crond[3592]: unable to exec /usr/sbin/sendmail: cron output for user root job sys-daily to /dev/null