crontab logs are not generated intermitently, though there is no issue with actual cron job execution.

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Issue

  • We are not able to see the logs related to cronjob intermittently.
  • There are multiple cronjobs defined but when we are reviewing the logs it does not show those cronjobs logs according to the timestamp, though there is no issue with execution of cronjobs, only that cron logs are missing.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  • rsyslog
  • crond

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