At Tue, 7 Dec 2010 10:21:27 -0500 (EST) CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org> wrote:
> > Question. In a chained cron job like this: > > sshfs . . . && /usr/bin/rsync . . . | /bin/mail -s . . . && . > . . > > Is there anyway to get a failure message from the first part to be > emailed or logged? > > Given the resolution of this problem I gather that sshfs must not > have been found and therefore I would expect an error to be reported > somewhere. The chained commands evidently interfered with the > propagation of this error which would have immediately identified > the source of the problem. Is it possible to get errors from the > individual parts of such chained commands forwarded to an email > address, or logged in the system log, or both? It is probably easiest to create a shell script with all of the chaining there and use shell script flow control to deal with mailing/logging errors: #!/bin/sh -e sshfs . . . /usr/bin/rsync . . . 2>&1 | /bin/mail -s . . . .. Or something like that (eg using '|| error-handling/reporting code' instead of -e). > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / hel...@deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
