How to check if cron is working?

Question

linux

I have never worked with cron, and not so much with Linux, so help me out. How can I check if cron is working? Or let's do something that would be output to the console after starting every minute?

Answer 1

grep -i cron /var/log/syslog

Answer 2

Do you need to see if cron works in general, or see how it performs a specific task?