How to check if a cron job ran

Cron is a time based scheduled task daemon that runs on most common Unix/Linux distributions. Because cronjobs are time based sometimes it is necessary to validate that the job ran at the scheduled time. Sometimes people will configure a cron to send the output of the script to a user via system mail or redirect the output to a file; however not all crons are setup the same and many times they may be configured to send output to /dev/null hindering any ability to validate the job ran....

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