Re: Cron jobs

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

Brian Schramm wrote:
  >OK I have looked at the cron and crontabs man pages to no avail.  I would
  >like to have a script that runs every 15 minutes only send me an email if
  >it errors.  The script exits out if certain conditions are good.  I have
  >it exiting with an exit command in a if statement.
  >
  >What I want is it to email me if it does not exit out prematurely.  That
  >way I can tell when I had to run the script so I can get a feal as to how
  >often I end up with a problem.
  >
  >Any ideas?
 
If anything is sent to standard output or standard error, cron will
automatically mail it to the user who owns the cron job.

So send anything you don't want to see to /dev/null.

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