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Log of cron actions on OS X

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Mar 15, 202643047 views
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Problem

Does the cron which comes with OS X log its actions anywhere? I'm not looking for output of any particular cron job, but rather log of what cron is doing. On a couple linux machines I've checked, there's which has contents like: This shows when jobs ran, when users viewed or edited crontabs, etc. T…

Error Output

Apr 26 11:00:01 localhost crond[27755]: (root) CMD (/root/bin/mysql-backup)
Apr 26 11:01:01 localhost crond[27892]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.h…

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Fix for: Log of cron actions on OS X

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Much easier to simply add the following to /etc/syslog.conf : Then restart syslog Tested and working on OSX 10.7.4

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