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I have a running cron job that will be going for a while and I'd like to view its stdout. I don't know how important the fact that the process was started by cron is, but I figure I'd mention it. This is on OSX so, I don't have access to things like... /proc/[pid]/..., or truss, or strace. Suggestions of executing with IO redirection (e.g. script > output & tail -f output) are NOT acceptable, because this process is 1) already running, and 2) can't be stopped/restarted with redirection. If there are general solutions that will work across various Unices, that'd be ideal, but specifically I'm trying to accomplish this on a Mac right now.