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I'm trying to setup a crontab on the Mac. It just simply prints the message "Hello there!" to the console at a specific time, but it doesn't seem to work. Below is what I have in the crontab:

28 16 * * * echo "Hello there!"

Nothing happened at 4:28 pm. What did I miss?

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Cronjob does not output to screen or any terminal. On a default installation the cron jobs get logged to

/var/log/syslog
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  • Thanks for your respond. Where can I locate that /var/log/syslog location from the root? Sorry, I'm a noob in Mac – user222776 May 08 '13 at 00:12
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    http://superuser.com/questions/134864/log-of-cron-actions-on-os-x – slm May 08 '13 at 00:27
  • I checked my system.log file, but I didn't see any update today. – user222776 May 08 '13 at 01:34
  • OS X's cron doesn't log output to either /var/log/syslog or /var/log/system.log by default. The question linked above describes how to enable logging by modifying com.vix.cron.plist. – Lri May 08 '13 at 17:32