Re: Cron jobs

[John Pearson <john@huiac.apana.org.au>]

On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 11:41:19AM -0500, 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?
> 
> Brian Schramm
> bri@penguinpowered.com
> www.linuxexpert.org
> 
> 
> 
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