Re: Parsing and monitoring Crontabs

I don't know of any monitoring interface to cron. So probably the only possibilites are

1) Monitor the logfile where cron posts its execution infos, maybe parse it with something like Regexp::Log

2) if you have the power to change crontab entries, you might add a wrapper script to every line that records the execution statistics to a file. Trivially this could be just adding 'time' before every command so that the user gets an email for every execution. The emails then would have to be captured and analyzed, which is the tricky part (A real wrapper script would be simpler overall in most cases)

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Re^2: Parsing and monitoring Crontabs by abhijithtk (Novice) on Jul 12, 2010 at 16:22 UTC
like toolic said. there is a read method/ write method in Config::Crontab which allows you to read the contents, and if needed even delete a crontab entry. Its looks quite formidable at first, but the examples there give a clearer picture.	[reply]