cron errors to sendmail

[p7]

hi all

we have a cron job that stops/starts oracle for data protector backup. sometimes oracle has errors and doesnt come up all the way. is
there a generic way to pass errors to sendmail
so the user knows if oracle is up or down?

thx in advance

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

In any crontask, un-redirected STDOUT or STDERR is sent as mail to the initiating user.

Hence, in the absence of doing anything, any output will be mailed to the user that cron'ed the task.

If you want only STDERR, for example, do something like:

# /usr/local/bin/mything 1>/dev/null

In this case, STDOUT goes to the bit-bucket, but any STDERR gets mailed to the initiating user when the above task is 'cron'ed.

Regards!

...JRF...
Regards!

...JRF...