[WBEL-users] crontab error

[Christopher L Judd]

Thanks for the good suggestion.  I will try this.

-Chris

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 Vincent.Raffensberger@dtn.com wrote:

> By default, stderr is sent to $MAILTO, which is usually root.
> There are many few ways to do it.  Here are two.
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> Redirect stderr and send all output to an address:
> bad_scripty.sh 2>&1 | mailto -s "Subject goes here"" add@ress.com
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> Change $MAILTO for that line in the crontab and send only errors to that
> address:
> ( MAILTO=another@address.com; bad_scripty.sh | mailto -s "Subject goes
> here"" add@ress.com )
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> Christopher L Judd <clj2289@garnet.acns.fsu.edu>
> Sent by: whitebox-users-admin@beau.org
> 09/15/2004 05:00 PM
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> Whitebox users,
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> I have a cron job that emails its out put to an email address as well as
> the local user account on the machine.  Problem is, when the script
> the cron calls errors
> out for one reason or another and doesn't run I only get notification of
> this on the local system account.  Could anyone help me harvest this error
> info and send it to an email account outside the local machine?
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> Thanks for you help,
> Chris
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