Cron status?

[wylde342]

How can I see if a cron job I added is running/worked whatever? I've got syslog-ng installed...but I don't see any log for it?

[befortin]

What's the

[wylde342]

date time hostname crontab[pid] (root) BEGIN EDIT (root)

its about 10 lines of this. I have a job that is supposed to be running 5 * * * * and I don't see it running?

[befortin]

Is your cron file set to +x? And what's the content of this file?

Here's the kind of logs I have in my /var/log/messages :

[wylde342]

Well, I use "crontab -e" as root for this script I'm trying to get working. How do I +x that file...I can't find it?

[befortin]

What's the content of your file?

[wylde342]

penguin root # crontab -e
#!/bin/bash

5 * * * * sh /usr/local/MPP/clamavupdate.sh

[59729]

You should be able to add files to your crondirs thats what the run script does check for crons I think
/etc/
cron.daily
cron.hourly
cron.monthly
cron.weekly

[wylde342]

Cool, I'll try that.

One more thing, how can I set my editor permanately? For instance, when I type "crontab -e" I get an error that makes me have to type "export editor=vim"

Thanks for all your help on this one!

[befortin]

Set the EDITOR= in /etc/rc.conf