How can I view results of my cron jobs?

Check if the programs you run with cron have their own log files. If if they don't but write their output to the standard outputs you can redirect these to files or mail them to you. Inside crontabs standard shell redirection works. E.g. to redirect the error output of to and discarding the standard output (i.e. sending it to ) add the following redirection to your crontab or to mail it to you instead (if is available)