sfritz / fail_mail

Wraps your scripts and emails you when they fail. Useful for cron.

Update: Turns out I'm not the first person to be frustrated by cron emails. Try chronic from moreutils, or cronic, or shush, or cronwrap.

fail_mail

Wraps your scripts and emails you when they fail. Useful for cron.

example

Your cron used to be this:

MAILTO=[e-mail]
0 2 * * 1-5 ruby example.rb

Change to this:

0 2 * * 1-5 ./fail_mail 'ruby example.rb' --from cron --to [e-mail] --subject 'Example Job Failed!'

Now you only get bothered when the job has a non-zero exit status. Sends stdout and stderr in the body.

FROM: cron@jobbox
TO: [e-mail]
SUBJECT: Example Job Failed!

Everything was going fine until...
...Something went wrong!