Damian Wiest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do whatever you like. I'm simply stating my preference and providing > an alternative setup for people to consider. I don't find receiving > 200+ messages a day from cron jobs running on the network with identical > subject lines to be a particularly good setup. In this case, having > cron mail me the results of the job is not "exactly what I want" as you > seem to believe.
I didn't say its exactly what you want, I said its exactly what the person asking about periodic wants. You are the one making blanket statements about "bad cron jobs" without considering what is intended. > If you can come up with a better scheme for managing emailed output from > hundreds of jobs running on hundreds of machines, then please share. > As it stands, you're merely trolling. I don't need to come up with any such scheme, as I don't have any such problem. I simply said that cron is ideal for running a task and then sending an email about it. This is true wether you let cron send the mail or if you do it yourself in the script. I think you need to learn what a troll is, or stop tossing it around like that. You are not the definition of good, and telling you as much is not trolling. Adam
