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Re: migration from cron.daily to systemd timers



Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> writes:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 02:09:12AM +0000, Paul Wise wrote:

>> This is the main reason I haven't switched to systemd timers for my
>> personal crontab, I have some jobs that generate output (diffs of
>> various things mostly) but don't fail. There doesn't appear to be any
>> tool to monitor a tool and send a mail if it generates output or fails,
>> in the way that cron does.

> mail -E ?

Specifically:

    ExecStart=/bin/sh -c '/path/to/job | /usr/bin/mail -E'

in the service unit triggered by the timer unit should work, I think.
(I've not tested it.)

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)              <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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