[Gllug] Crons and mail

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 03:24:16PM +0000, william pink wrote:
> Currently we are using the MAIL TO variable to send out mail regarding the
> various crons that are running, unfortunately or not I have a cron that runs
> every minute that produces output which will of course cause cron to send
> out a email. What I really want to do is send out a email if theres a error,
> there is a bash script that runs a Ruby rake task so I presume there is a
> way of manipulating the output of that or perhaps log to a file that can be
> tailed+grepped for any obvious error keywords (which doesn't sound like a
> great solution).

I was fairly sure that MAILTO doesn't send mail if the job is silent.
So the solution would be to make the job only print stuff on error :-)

Rich.

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Richard Jones
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