Only email on cron errors for jobs in cron.daily, cron.hourly, etc
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I have several cron jobs that run (in , , , etc.) and email with the results. I'd like to stop those emails if the jobs are succeeding, and only email on error (which I understand can be done by redirecting to ). I understand how to do that for individual cron jobs, but the scripts in those special…
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/etc/cron.daily
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Fix for: Only email on cron errors for jobs in cron.daily, cron.hourly, etc
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You may want to use one of the wrappers for the programs, that output everything when something goes bad and swallow stdout otherwise. One example might be cronic, just prepend 'cronic' to 'run-parts' e.g.: where is a place with executable cronic sc…
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