On 6 Jul 2009, at 12:18, Adrian McEwen wrote: > doug livesey wrote: >> Hi -- millions of years ago (or thereabouts), I seem to remember >> hearing that if you put a "puts" in a task you were going to schedule >> in a cron job to run as a daemon, that could cause issues. >> Has anyone found this? >> Or did I dream it? >> Because I want to do that very thing in a rake task I'm going to be >> scheduling. >> Cheers, >> Doug. > I've never had any problems with that - I've got plenty of rake tasks > run over cron that use puts to provide some output information. Cron > gathers the output into an email and sends it to whoever owns the cron > job once the job completes. IIRC you can choose a different email > address, it's just a case of reading up on how cron works.
Yup, just stick: MAILTO=your address above the jobs you want to receive the output from. Also, if you're running anything intense/regularly you should really use something like lockrun (http://unixwiz.net/tools/lockrun.html) to prevent overrun, swapping and untimely server death. Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
