Awstats stderr solution

UNIX BSD
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Hello!

Firts of all, sorry fo my poor english, but i hope you'll undestand me :slight_smile:

Ok, let's go to the problem....

I have a lot of awstats crontabs, and i have one mail,where i get daily and weekly output of all servers that i administrate, now it's problem that i get to his mail every time, when crontab for awstats is started.

I was searching on google so long, but i did't find any fine solution too me, because i don't want to use this in the end of crontab -> CRON >/dev/null 2>&1
because this will email me only if file won't exist anymore.

Finally, i want that crontab for awstats send me email just in case if awstats don't update correcly.

Thank you very much!

Regards

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So is there a program or script named "awstats" which is in a crontab? Let's say you have this job running every day at 2:30 am.

2  30  * * * /usr/local/bin/awstats

If you want it to only email you when there's a problem, just do this:

2  30  * * * /usr/local/bin/awstats >/dev/null 2>&1 || echo "awstats failed to complete"

This does require that the script exit with a non-zero condition upon an error. Do you have a way of testing this?

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Hmmm.... maybe this'll work, buti don't know if this will alert me, if config file doesn't exit and if update wasn't successfully made?

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Test it. Run awstats and force an error condition (one way is to kill the process from another terminal). Then in the command prompt after awstats returns, run

echo $?

If it exited with a non-zero, cron will email you. Make sure cron CAN email you.