Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 02:18:12 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Nicky <nicky@valuecare.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Current Cron Log Message-ID: <20060726071811.GC70646@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <1153897405.691.10.camel@nlp> References: <1153897405.691.10.camel@nlp>
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In the last episode (Jul 26), Nicky said: > I have a script that is started through cron. This script contains > several steps, each step writes information to stdout, in case of > errors to stderr. The total script runs for about 6 hours and then > the the combined output of all steps is mailed to root. > > However, is there a way to 'examine/monitor' the scripts progress. > Perhaps cron keeps a temporary/current logfile of my scripts output, > which i can look at? There should be a sendmail process catching the output of the command cron launched. If there's more than a couple KB of output, it will create a queue file in /var/spool/mqueue that you can look at while the cron job runs. If the job only prints a couple lines of output, though, sendmail won't generate the queue file until it has to deliver the final email. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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