{"id":220,"date":"2016-01-03T01:07:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T01:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adienicholls.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=220"},"modified":"2017-03-11T06:29:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T06:29:21","slug":"raspberry-pi-enable-cron-log","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.adienicholls.co.uk\/blog\/raspberry-pi-enable-cron-log\/","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi Enable Cron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By default,\u00a0 Cron is disabled meaning anything entered into\u00a0 &#8216;crontab&#8217; wont be run.<\/p>\n<p>To enable this function, follow the steps below:<\/p>\n<p>Once logged into the Pi use the below command to open up the &#8216;rsyslog.conf&#8217; file in the Nano editor<\/p>\n<pre>cd\/etc\r\nsudo nano rsyslog.conf<\/pre>\n<p>Once the rsyslog is loaded into nano, navigate to the below section and un-comment the &#8216;cron&#8217; option<\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #999999;\">#<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\"># First some standard log files.\u00a0 Log by facility.<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\">#<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\">auth,authpriv.*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \/var\/log\/auth.log<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\">*.*;auth,authpriv.none\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -\/var\/log\/syslog<\/span>\r\ncron.*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \/var\/log\/cron.log\r\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\">daemon.*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -\/var\/log\/daemon.log<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\">kern.*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -\/var\/log\/kern.log<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\">lpr.*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -\/var\/log\/lpr.log<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\">mail.*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -\/var\/log\/mail.log<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\">user.*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -\/var\/log\/user.log<\/span><\/pre>\n<p>Save the document by pressing CTRL + O and then CTRL+X\u00a0 close the editor.<\/p>\n<p>Reboot the Raspberry Pi:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo reboot<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By default,\u00a0 Cron is disabled meaning anything entered into\u00a0 &#8216;crontab&#8217; wont be run. To enable this function, follow the steps below: Once logged into the Pi use the below command to open up the &#8216;rsyslog.conf&#8217; file in the Nano editor cd\/etc sudo nano rsyslog.conf Once the rsyslog is loaded into nano, navigate to the below &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adienicholls.co.uk\/blog\/raspberry-pi-enable-cron-log\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Raspberry Pi Enable Cron<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,88],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adienicholls.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adienicholls.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adienicholls.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adienicholls.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adienicholls.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.adienicholls.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"http:\/\/www.adienicholls.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adienicholls.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adienicholls.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adienicholls.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adienicholls.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}