If this is a systemd distro, you can just create a timer and service. That way instead of sending a mail message, it's automatically part of the logging for that unit.

If it's a recent version of systemd, you can have a user based systemd that doesn't need escalated privileges. I just finished setting up borg for backup since I'm on Fedora Silverblue now (couldn't use the old way), and I just set up user based systemd units to do the backup.

Thanks!

@Reid-Cooper said:

That's interesting. Quotes without the escapes should make that unnecessary. Interesting way to fix it, though.

Yeah, the quotes was still showing it as a syntax error.

I found a thread on the Ubuntu forums here: ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1845962

It pointed me to a conf file located here: /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf

I used vi to uncomment this line:

cron.* /var/log/cron.log

Now I should get cron logs. I'll check the other place too. Thanks!