I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this, but maybe I'm wrong. Back in the bad-old-days, there was a system log for the cron process in which you could keep track of what cron is doing. Is this log completely gone now? Running on 13.2 (sadly).
LOGNAME
and MAILTO
environment variables. If your goal is to setup and monitor your own cron jobs, you're all set.pmset
may give you greater control/insight towards sleep issues. There's also caffeinate
to temporarily keep the computer awake under a variety of conditions.