Technical notes, and other ideas.
Refer: https://askubuntu.com/questions/56683/where-is-the-cron-crontab-log
On a default installation the cron jobs get logged to
/var/log/syslogYou can see just cron jobs in that logfile by running
grep CRON /var/log/syslogThe above grep will return nohthing if your crontab has not been configured yet.
Simple command to sort a crontab file, if you are using a file like crontab.txt
$ egrep -rv '^\s*[#;]|^\s*$' crontab.txt | perl -ane 'print join("\t", @F[0..5], join(" ", @F[6..$#F])),"\n" unless /MAILTO/' | sort -nt$'\t' -k2 -k1 | column -t -s$'\t' > crontab-out.txt
Details: sort-crontab-notes.txt
/etc/cron.hourly/jboss-config
See attached for script, as of 03/19/2012. Sudo as root to see current version on your VM.