http://sn.1w6.org/file/mk-20150523T181321-sppyw9v.html
@mk yay! I FINALLY managed to get (busybox...) crond to log to a log file; though setting the log level via '-l N' does not seem to be supported (but there may be a workaround for that via '-d N'). So now I know that a) the updatedb command (to update locate database) is actually running and b) that it is unsuccessful because the output file is locked. #real #progress