How to read cron jobs

From time to time you may be interested in verifying that your cron jobs run as expected. How do we do that? By reading the logs of course. I will describe how to find cron logs in this article.

By default cron jobs get logged to

/var/log/syslog

To view only cron jobs, run the following command:

 grep CRON /var/log/syslog

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