How to know if cronjob is failing (running a python command)

Question

When I run this command, the output message is being saved into ok.txt:

 /home/admin/virtualenvs/x.com/bin/python /home/admin/www/x.com/x/app/manage.py help | tee ok.txt

I have this cronjob:

* * * * * /home/admin/virtualenvs/x.com/bin/python /home/admin/www/x.com/x/app/manage.py help | tee ok.txt

But nothing is saved to ok.txt

When I see the cron log

> sudo grep CRON /var/log/syslog

May 10 22:16:01 localhost CRON[23397]: (admin) CMD (/home/admin/virtualenvs/x.com/bin/python /home/admin/www/x.com/x/app/manage.py help | tee ok.txt)

No hints here, what am I doing wrong? thanks in advance.

Answer 1

try with this :

* * * * * /home/admin/virtualenvs/x.com/bin/python /home/admin/www/x.com/x/app/manage.py help > /tmp/ok.txt 2&>1

it should put all outputs (stderr and stdout) into your ok.txt file