Bug#711017: RFP: cronic -- Cronic is a shim for wrapping cron jobs so that cron only sends email when an error has occurred.

[Olivier Berger <olivier.berger@telecom-sudparis.eu>]

Hi.

On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 01:44:19AM +0100, Nicholas Robinson-Wall wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I believe you are actually looking for 'chronic', which is already
> provided by package 'morutils' at /usr/bin/chronic.

It is in 'moreutils', actually ;)

Note however that at the moment, they aren't strictly equivalent, as cronic allows to set traces inside the run shell script which are then reported in the mail, which chronic doesn't.

I've filed #735311 against moreutils, then.

Until this is fixed, I'd tend to keep this RFP alive.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
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Olivier BERGER 
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