How to check if cron is working?

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Coder3212017-01-13 22:12:37

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Coder321, 2017-01-13 22:12:37

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?

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Rsa97, 2017-01-13
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grep -i cron /var/log/syslog

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K-700A, 2017-01-13
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Do you need to see if cron works in general, or see how it performs a specific task?