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Rudie
Rudie

Reputation: 53821

Have cron only send mail when PHP throws an error

I've a few cronjobs that run small PHP scripts every 1 or 2 minutes. Obviously I don't want e-mail every minute. I do want to know when the cron failed or when it encountered any kind of error (= notice, warning, error or uncaught exception).

My PHP scripts print a lot of meta data (using echo) so it can be run manually and inspected. I want all of that meta data to be sent to me IF an error occurred. If no error occurred, I don't want mail, but because there's output, cron sends me an e-mail anyway.

Is there a way to have cron ONLY send me the entire output IF an error occurred?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1280

Answers (1)

Dave S.
Dave S.

Reputation: 6419

Check out crronic - it's a shell wrapper that provides this functionality:

http://habilis.net/cronic/

Note that you'll need to exit with a nonzero exit value in case of an error (in order to trigger the mail).

Upvotes: 2

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