Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 11:27:55AM -0400, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> Does Debian have any utility to address the following situation? >> >> I have some scripts that I run both manually and as cron jobs. The scripts >> generate stdout/stderr output reporting what they're doing. >> >> I want to see the output when I run the scripts manually. However, when the >> scripts are run by cron, normally I don't want cron to e-mail me that bulky >> output for each run--I want the output (the full output) only when the output >> is different than expected (e.g., if something has gone wrong or has changed, >> which I want to notice). > > Why not rewrite the scripts to take a command-line option such as either > -q (quiet) or -v (verbose), and have it print out the required detail > depending on the option? Then have that option supplied by cron when > its run (or by you when you run it manually).
Because, as I wrote, "I want the output (the full output) only when the output is different than expected." The level of detail I want does not depend on just _how_ I run the scripts; it depends on the results. And, of course, I'm looking for a more general solution thatn modifying each script. Daniel -- (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML "courtesy" of Microsoft Exchange.) [F]
