On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Dave Cramer <davecramer@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there anything out there that is written simply ? By this I mean I don't want to have to install a framework or a jvm or any large dependencies. Ideally this would be written in bash or the like.

The goal is to monitor cron jobs using something other than mail.

Is the DB requirement necessary? I think Mauro's suggestion is fine if you don't need to put it into a DB as you can just have all the output redirected into a logging file.

Just to improve on his suggestion though:

0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/ >> /tmp/backup.log 2>&1

That last little bit says to redirect the STDERR to STDOUT so you'll also get error messages logged. Otherwise you'll also get an email if there's anything on the STDERR.

-Tim