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kannanrbk
kannanrbk

Reputation: 7134

Details of last ran cron job in Unix-like systems?

I want to get the details of the last run cron job. If the job is interrupted due to some internal problems, I want to re-run the cron job.

Note: I don't have superuser privilege.

Upvotes: 57

Views: 114496

Answers (3)

yen leidong
yen leidong

Reputation: 61

CentOs, sudo grep CRON /var/log/cron

Upvotes: 6

Stecman
Stecman

Reputation: 3060

You can see the date, time, user and command of previously executed cron jobs using:

grep CRON /var/log/syslog

This will show all cron jobs. If you only wanted to see jobs run by a certain user, you would use something like this:

grep CRON.*\(root\) /var/log/syslog

Note that cron logs at the start of a job so you may want to have lengthy jobs keep their own completion logs; if the system went down halfway through a job, it would still be in the log!

Edit: If you don't have root access, you will have to keep your own job logs. This can be done simply by tacking the following onto the end of your job command:

&& date > /home/user/last_completed

The file /home/user/last_completed would always contain the last date and time the job completed. You would use >> instead of > if you wanted to append completion dates to the file.

You could also achieve the same by putting your command in a small bash or sh script and have cron execute that file.

#!/bin/bash
[command]
date > /home/user/last_completed

The crontab for this would be:

* * * * * bash /path/to/script.bash

Upvotes: 86

Vijay Vasanth
Vijay Vasanth

Reputation: 335

/var/log/cron contains cron job logs. But you need a root privilege to see.

Upvotes: 13

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