How to check if my cron jobs are executed?

Solution 1:

If you want to check if they are executed, use:

grep -i cron /var/log/syslog

Solution 2:

Just do what cron does.

• run-parts -v /etc/cron.daily
• run-parts -v /etc/cron.weekly
• etc

-v prints the script names before they are run.

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Solution 3:

If you would like to just check that cron is running, you can do the following:

service cron status