At Tue, 7 Dec 2010 10:21:27 -0500 (EST) CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Question. In a chained cron job like this:
>
> sshfs . . . && /usr/bin/rsync . . . | /bin/mail -s . . . && .
> . .
>
> Is there anyway to get a failure message from the first part to be
> emailed or logged?
>
> Given the resolution of this problem I gather that sshfs must not
> have been found and therefore I would expect an error to be reported
> somewhere. The chained commands evidently interfered with the
> propagation of this error which would have immediately identified
> the source of the problem. Is it possible to get errors from the
> individual parts of such chained commands forwarded to an email
> address, or logged in the system log, or both?
It is probably easiest to create a shell script with all of the chaining
there and use shell script flow control to deal with mailing/logging
errors:
#!/bin/sh -e
sshfs . . .
/usr/bin/rsync . . . 2>&1 | /bin/mail -s . . .
..
Or something like that (eg using '|| error-handling/reporting code'
instead of -e).
>
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