On 12/7/10 9:21 AM, James B. Byrne wrote:
> Question. In a chained cron job like this:
>
> sshfs . . .&& /usr/bin/rsync . . . | /bin/mail -s . . .&& .
> . .
>
> Is there anyway to get a failure message from the first part to be
> emailed or logged?
>
> Given the resolution of this problem I gather that sshfs must not
> have been found and therefore I would expect an error to be reported
> somewhere. The chained commands evidently interfered with the
> propagation of this error which would have immediately identified
> the source of the problem. Is it possible to get errors from the
> individual parts of such chained commands forwarded to an email
> address, or logged in the system log, or both?
Cron should default to mailing anything sent to stdout or stderr to the owner of
the job if you don't redirect it elsewhere.
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Les Mikesell
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