On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 07:12:17PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Michael Stone <mst...@debian.org> writes:
On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 02:09:12AM +0000, Paul Wise wrote:
This is the main reason I haven't switched to systemd timers for my
personal crontab, I have some jobs that generate output (diffs of
various things mostly) but don't fail. There doesn't appear to be any
tool to monitor a tool and send a mail if it generates output or fails,
in the way that cron does.
mail -E ?
Specifically:
ExecStart=/bin/sh -c '/path/to/job | /usr/bin/mail -E'
in the service unit triggered by the timer unit should work, I think.
(I've not tested it.)
May need something like
(job || echo Job failed) 2>&1 | mail -E
or even
(job 2>&1 || echo Job failed) | tee /dev/stderr | mail -E
depending on the specific requirements, but in general this should be
pretty straightforward