Anybody using cronic?

grant123 · Veteran Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 1080

Is anyone here using cronic to process output from their crontabs? I'm wondering if it's necessary in real-world scenarios.

lxg · Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 12:08 am Post subject:

Do you mean this one? http://habilis.net/cronic/

Nice snippet of bash code, but unnecessary to give it a name and write an essay about it.
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grant123 · Veteran Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 1080

Do you use it? Maybe you haven't run into a scenario where it's necessary?

lxg · Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 11:16 am Post subject:

No, I personally wouldn't need it. For me, it's ok to receive raw output if a cronjob goes mad. And, if I need to apply output redirection, I don't do so in the crontab, but in the script itself.

Besides, the subtitle "A cure for Cron's chronic email problem" sounds a bit big-mouthed to me. Especially as the reason is not cron, but badly written shell scripts.
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