cron job

[cljlk]

If the cron job run every 15 minute, it will fill up mail box.
Does anyone has any idea.
Thanks

"Davide Bianchi" <davideyeahsure@onlyforfun.net> wrote in message
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> In comp.unix.admin cljlk <cljlk@hotmail.com> wrote:

> > Are there any tools we can monitor the cron job is dead?

>
> ps -ef | grep cron will tell
>

> > it runs.

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> have him send you an e-mail when it does.
> Davide
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[Charles Buckley]

cljlk wrote:

> If the cron job run every 15 minute, it will fill up mail box.
> Does anyone has any idea.
> Thanks
>

What sort of job is it?

You could, for instance, write a wrapper for the app that
will create a file with the process id, then run a daemon that
checks for that process id, then log the time in a file. If it
returns negative, it alerts you.

> "Davide Bianchi" <davideyeahsure@onlyforfun.net> wrote in message
> news:c4bkg9$2fdao6$1@ID-18487.news.uni-berlin.de...
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>>In comp.unix.admin cljlk <cljlk@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>

>>>Are there any tools we can monitor the cron job is dead?

>>
>>ps -ef | grep cron will tell
>>
>>

>>>it runs.

>>
>>have him send you an e-mail when it does.
>>Davide
>>
>>--
>>| Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders' dying
>>| words
>>|
>>|

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