The cron jobs generally deal with downloading or reading financial/economic information, doing stuff with it, loading the modified or subsetted data into another db, and usually creating a chart or graph, distilling it, and posting it to a web site. Generally we're only worried about errors. The non-eroneous output is mainly useful to see what "normal" is when there IS an error. Also, there are several jobs that have dependencies, so we do want to be notified ASAP if there is an error. I guess one thing we need to consider is how to distribute the work between the wrapper script and the web site posting script. If we do CGI, we might need three scripts: the wrapper, the error-checker, and the CGI. The more I think about it, the static, every five minutes approach is probably better. I don't think I want to do much with the wrapper script, as I want to keep that as simple as possible so a minimum of errors are introduced by it. Thanks to all.

In reply to Re^2: Accessing cron job output from a web page? by OfficeLinebacker
in thread Accessing cron job output from a web page? by OfficeLinebacker

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