I do remember getting emails (last year?) from running cronjobs on the grid
until I disabled them, iirc it was when they failed, but not necessarily a
description of the error. I literally cannot find any documentation
regarding this anymore so I almost have to think if I didn't imagine this
entire ordeal.

Best,
QEDK

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 09:01 Sam Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think the only way is to have your cronjob do the emailing of the
> output, and then delete (or move) the output file so it's not repeated
> on the next run. Something like:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> ## Call actual job script here.
> ./do-tool-things.sh
>
> ## Email output to maintainers.
> echo -e 'Subject: [tools.toolname] Job output\nContent-Type: text/plain;
> charset=UTF-8' | cat - /data/project/toolname/cron-tools.jobname.out |
> /usr/sbin/exim -odf -i [email protected]
>
> ## Remove output file.
> rm /data/project/toolname/cron-tools.jobname.out
>
> Although of course the details might differ for different tools.
>
>
> On 22/6/21 4:52 pm, Shrinivasan T wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have a bot at toolforge, running weekly once in cron job using "jsub"
> >
> > Followed the below link for the setup.
> > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Pywikibot
> >
> > Getting the JOBNAME.out and JOBNAME.err files at the home folder.
> >
> > Is there any other way like email notification to get alerts, if some
> > error happens?
> >
> > I think the files JOBNAME.out and JOBNAME.err will be keep on growing
> > on the bason host login.toolforge.org
> >
> > How to avoid this?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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