>> syslog isn't responsible for cron jobs. crond is. see if it is running. > > Er, OK. Mea culpa! Yes, it is: > > 2895 ? S 0:03 /usr/sbin/crond -l10 you might want to strace cron to see what it is doing. and check to see how cron.* is handled in syslog.conf just to make sure that /var/log/cron is the right place to look.