> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martijn Lievaart
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 1:48 PM
> The problem is that I use a cronjob for backups. It never
> sends mails.
> All other cronjobs send mail fine. The only difference is
> that this job runs for almost two hours. If it stops on
> mounting the backup directory or fails quickly for any other
> reason, it sends mail fine. Anyone seen this? Any solution or
> workaround?
For various reasons, I like to run backup cron jobs using scripts of the
form:
[ Pseudo script only... ]
( pre_backup_prep; backup_tasks; post_backup_cleanup; )
>/var/backup/log.`date +%Y%J` 2>&1; \
if grep -v success /var/backup/log.`date +%Y%J` then \
mail -s "Backup problems" admin </var/backup... \
Fi
[ Summary: dump the output from the backup into a file, and if the thing
didn't complete successfully, mail that file to you. And you'll probably
also want a "after X days, clean out the old logs" job, too. ]
This lets me look a *successful* backup logs if I want to, but not if I
don't, and if (for whatever reason) I'm having issues with mail, I still can
see what happened (this is especially important if the destination address
if off-domain).
> Martijn Lievaart
Malc.
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