Manipulating cdrecord output to work well with cron

[Yannick Le Saint (kyncani)]

On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 21:43 -0700, Levander wrote:
> Anybody know a way around this so that if cdrecord succeeds, I don't get 
> any output?

  I would do it using a log file. The command line in cron :

{ echo starting; if cdrecord blah blah blah 2>&1; then echo SUCCESS;
else echo FAILURE; echo "Cdrecord failure (`date`), check
$HOME/.cdrecord.log for details." >&2; fi; } | sed "s#^#`date`
cron-cdrecord $$: #" >>$HOME/.cdrecord.log

  Obviously, you'll have to setup logrotate to rotate your
$HOME/.cdrecord.log log file.
  And, well, that's some cron command ;)


  Or you could use a temp file, but i don't like it :

cdrecord blah blah blah &>$HOME/.cdrecord.log || cat $HOME/.cdrecord.log


  I prefer the log file way because it keeps an history of cdrecord
logs, always useful when you have a problem.


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Regards.

Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) <y.lesaint at gmail.com>
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