I have a cron job set up for daily execution (on my own ubuntu, just for trial) like so:
0 0 * * * /path/exec.sh
It is been set for daily execution. I usually open my machine around 8a.m. I would like to find out
- what time my cron job ran, if it has already run ?
- I would also like to see if any of my cron job is running at the moment?
Is there a way to find out IF a cron job is actually running at the moment?
to check if cron is actually running anything at this moment in time (works on ubuntu)
pstree -apl `pidof cron`
and you'll either get
2775,cron # your pid (2775) will be different to mine :-)
or a tree output with all the child processes that cron is running (it may not name them if you don't have sufficient privileges) and as Hamoriz says the logs are in /var/log/syslog so
grep CRON /var/log/syslog
will get you the logs just for cron