Pipe cron to syslog/journald

Published March 9, 2019 (updated: June 27, 2020) in linux.

Simple way to pipe cron script output to journalctl / syslog

MAILTO=""
* * * * * user (echo "testing") 2>&1 | logger -t tag-to-use

gives following in journalctl

$ journalctl SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER=tag-to-use
-- Logs begin at Tue 2019-02-26 16:48:53 UTC, end at Fri 2019-03-08 22:12:03 UTC. --
Mar 08 22:04:01 server tag-to-use[25769]: testing