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vixie cron patch to syslog job end

Asked by Craig Constantine

I've seen mention that there's a patch (or perhaps just part of Vixie cron after some version) that causes it to syslog a message when the child process exits. In this feature/patch available in or around the Ubuntu 8.04LTS, 9.04, 9.10 releases?

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#1

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Craig Constantine (craig-constantine) said : 		#2

Nudge. Does anyone have a breadcrumb how/where I can find this functionality?

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Best Christian Kastner (ckk) said : 		#3

By passing -L 2 to the cron daemon, the daemon will log the end of jobs. You can do this by uncommenting the last line in /etc/default/cron. See also cron(8).

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Craig Constantine (craig-constantine) said : 		#4

Silver bullet. Thank you very much!