Wynne, Conor's [conor_wynne@maxtor.com] 16 lines of wisdom included:
> I setup a cron job to do a full backup to tape drive there last night, but
> I'm just wondering how I can verify that it actually ran?
> I suppose that a mail will be sent to root as I ran crontab -e as root. Is
> that correct or should I be looking elsewhere?
> Thanks to everyone who replies in advance.
Where does cron log to? (check /etc/syslog.conf)
Usually it's something like /var/log/cron.log or /var/log/cron
Anyways have a look in the logs, make sure your backup ran (so long
Typically if there's any output from the commands you've run,

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[ILUG] Checking that cronjobs actually ran?
From ilug-admin@linux.ie  Fri Aug  2 12:10:11 2002

I setup a cron job to do a full backup to tape drive there last night, but
I'm just wondering how I can verify that it actually ran?
I suppose that a mail will be sent to root as I ran crontab -e as root. Is
that correct or should I be looking elsewhere?
Thanks to everyone who replies in advance.

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