Where are crontab errors logged?

[czerdrill]

I have a cronjob set up but it failed to run recently. It worked fine before. It's the cPanel backup script thats readily available on the internet. Only change I made to the server was changing the ssh port from the default 22. Is there somewhere I can view what errors were thrown when a cronjob failed to run?

 

[czerdrill]

I was able to run it from shell with no issue, and the command I had in crontab worked until today. Any ideas?

 

[NetMantis]

Do you have "shell fork bomb protection" enabled on your server?

If so, disable it and see if your script runs

You can also take a look at /var/log/messages and watch the email account listed
in /root/.forward as that is where cron error reports would usually show up.

 

[JaredR.]

Cron-related messages, including success and failure, are logged to /var/log/cron .

 

[czerdrill]

Thanks guys, disabling shell fork bomb protection did the trick!