cron

Where cron keeps its logs

cron logs to /var/log/syslog on Linux. 2 other Linux log locations are recorded below, including paths for Debian/Ubuntu and RHEL/Fedora.

Paths are printed exactly as cron writes them. Environment variables like %LOCALAPPDATA% and $XDG_STATE_HOME are never expanded, so a path can be pasted straight into a shell. Where a path differs between installer types or shipping flavours, each one is racked as its own card below - why that happens.

Finding your way around Linux.