On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:26:55 +0200 Paul de Weerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My cronjobs do not output anything when stuff Just Works (tm). When > something goes wrong, they will give output which will be sent to the > admin (me). I'm sorry to jump in here, but I'm really curious about how you tell the diference between the job never running and it Just Working (tm)? I don't know about you, but particularly in the case of backup i'm very interested in making sure it worked successfully. It strikes me that this 'no news is good news' policy creats a single point of failure (cron).