Re: crons scripts should report status info in the mail

[Chris Fearnley <cjf@netaxs.com>]

'Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:'
>
>Since the output from cron jobs is mailed anyhow, as it should be, I
>think that all cron scripts should report in as they are run, and that
>this should be made a standard.  Here's why.

But if they complete successfully they should be quiet.  Maybe this
would work:

set -e
 
function onerror { if [ "$?" -ne 0 ]; then echo "error in script $0"; fi; }

trap onerror 0

SCRIPT HERE

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