logger for cron job

[Cameron Simpson]

On 24Apr2007 22:55, Thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
| I want to have output to know whether or not this cronjob tries to
| run, and, if so, what the result is.  This is done through the logger?
| <http://code.google.com/p/feed-on-feeds/> itself seems to run fine,
| but I have to manually update the feeds.
| 
| [root at localhost ~]# cat /etc/cron.hourly/feeds-on-feeds
| 50 * * * * /usr/local/bin/GET | http://minutillo.com/steve/fof/update-quiet.php
| [root at localhost ~]#
| [root at localhost ~]# date
| Tue Apr 24 22:52:00 BST 2007
| [root at localhost ~]#

You can always make the job do this:
  50 * * * * date >>~/cronruns.log; /usr/local/bin/GET http://minutillo.com/steve/fof/update-quiet.php

Cheers,
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