cron job verification

[Bill McGonigle]

On Jan 11, 2005, at 10:37 AM, Ed Lawson wrote:

> What is the best way to receive verification or otherwise check on
> whether or not the job ran and if it ran to completion properly?

For 'otherwise check' there's /var/log/cron.

What I'd love to see is a program that you can put patterns in for 
particular jobs' output indicating pass/fail/indeterminate which would 
alert the sysadmin iff the job doesn't complete successfully, log 
otherwise.  Some stats and maybe a baysian classifier would be nice.

Anybody have one of these?  I could shoehorn procmail to do it but it's 
not exactly the right tool for the job.

-Bill
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