cron job verification

[Randy Edwards]

 > What is the best way to receive verification or otherwise check on
 > whether or not the job ran and if it ran to completion properly?

   Debian's cron jobs should e-mail you the output of the job.  As per "man 
cron":

"cron then wakes up every minute, examining all stored crontabs,  checking  
each  command  to  see  if it should be run in the current minute. When 
executing commands, any output is  mailed  to  the  owner  of  the crontab 
(or to the user named in the MAILTO environment variable in the crontab, if 
such exists)."

 Regards,
 .
 Randy

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