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Email upon cron failure

Problem

You want to receive an email upon cron job failure.

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Add to beginning: bash -c '( msg=` Add to the end: 2>&1 > /tmp/logfail.log`; if [ ! -z "$msg" ] ; then echo "$msg" \| /bin/mail -s "`/bin/uname -n`:$LOGNAME:`/bin/date`: YOUR MESSAGE" YOUR_MAIL_LIST; fi )' Demo # # # # # bash -c '( msg=`YOUR COMMAND 2>&1 > /dev/null`; if [ ! -z "$msg" ] ; then echo "$msg" \|/bin/mail -s "`/bin/uname -n`:$LOGNAME:`/bin/date`: YOUR MESSAGE" YOUR_MAIL_LIST; fi )' Example of generating an email upon cron failure Another example

Email upon cron failure

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