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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#36510: confusing mcron logging
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 22:37:57 +0200
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To: Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net>
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Hi,

Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net> 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 =E2=80=98sudo herd schedule mcro=
n=E2=80=99.
I use that to manually run jobs that appear not to work as expected.

Ludo=E2=80=99.