crontab

Notifications for failed cron jobs

Cron jobs are a vital part of every sysadmins setup. Backups, log rotation, certificate renewal and whatnot. I've mostly just relied on them working as they should until now, but with my recent Huginn + Matrix obsession I figured I should have some sort of notifications. Crontab supports sending emails for your jobs, all you have to do is add MAILTO=youremail@example.com at the top. It defaults (on most distros) to sendmail, which I discovered was kind of a pain to set up. Instead I found t