Hi,
I just posted this to serverfault[0] and was hoping that somebody here had
solved the problem with a nice drop-in Ruby-friendly solution:
We're using cron to manage our backups and other jobs in multiple locations.
Using chef to populate files in cron.daily, cron.hourly, etc has worked
pretty well for us so far, but with some issues:
- I don't want to have to manage a mailserver on the system just to
receive cron output
- I want to be able to put output in my cron jobs without receiving
email about them if nothing went wrong
- I don't want to have to check /var/log/messages to see if jobs
failed without output
- I don't want to have to log in to the system to find that the backup
job is still running
Optimally, I'd like a web-based frontend that I can use to see this
information, either as an extension on cron or a complete replacement.
I can solve the above problems myself with a bit of scripting, but I'm sure
that this is a problem that others have solved already.
Note that I acknowledge that this is a completely separate issue from
verifying the backups after they've been completed.
[0]
http://serverfault.com/questions/306249/what-alternatives-are-there-to-cron-for-running-scheduled-jobs
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Michael Pearson
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