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Unix shell scripts in Bash for easier handling of cronjobs.
A little idea that offers more possibilities.

Free software and Open source.

👤 Author: Axel Hahn
📄 Source: https://github.com/axelhahn/cronwrapper
📜 License: GNU GPL 3.0
📗 Docs: see www.axel-hahn.de/docs

Introduction

Default Unix and linux cronjobs are quite basic stuff. Mostly you create "simple, stupid" jobs without output ... that just run. Or should.

If you use a cronjob you need to hide the output otherwise the root user gets an email. So if you generate the output and have many cronjobs then you need a convention how to name your log files.

Questions:

• How do you check if a job was successful? Just trust them? Watching each log? On each of your systems?
• How do you detect if the last job execution was successful but does not run anymore?

My simple approach:

By just adding a wrapper in front of your current command breaks tons of limits! Suddenly a simple action opens so many possibilities.