Send mail on error

Question

Send mail on error

MichaelCurrin opened this issue 5 years ago · 3 comments

Use system mail. Check if is the same on mac and linux

Include script output - all of it.

Send one mail for each failure. Although noisy it helps to see a pattern. Create an issue for aggregating more than X errors into one email with count in subject. If that is even needed. As failure rate is expected to be low.

Answer 1 · 2020-01-05T15:02:01.000Z

See Thunderbird instructions I wrote and see mac alternative. It is the easy to keep mail program and send sounds

Answer 2 · 2020-01-06T07:35:05.000Z

Link for guide https://www.nixtutor.com/linux/sending-email-alerts-through-cron/

Answer 3 · 2020-01-07T11:18:03.000Z

First pass could be to send all errors on same cron run. This could be actual output of main app, later can include links to task logs

Make crontab entry write out on error and hide output, conditionally.

All this avoids sending mail within the script.