Subject: Re: bug#36510: confusing mcron logging

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 22:37:57 +0200

Hi,

Robert Vollmert <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Suggestions:
> - mcron should log the timestamp and a job id of every job when it starts
> - mcron should log the timestamp and status and job id of every job when it finishes
> - job output should be prefixed by some job id

+1!  +3 even.  :-)

Something that can help debugging to some extent (but is definitely no
substitute for what you suggest above!) is ‘sudo herd schedule mcron’.
I use that to manually run jobs that appear not to work as expected.

Ludo’.