cronwrapper

Wrapper for cronjobs to handle failures in a more sane way.

Features

• Set a time limit for how long cron job are allowed to run
• Detect failures based on exit codes and output to stderr
• Restrict how often a cron job should send output mail on failure
• Ensure that only a single instance of the cron job is running at any time

Usage

Just run cronwrapper --help to check available options and flags. Decide on your preferences, and define your cronjob like this:

* * * * * root /usr/local/bin/cronwrapper -n awesome_job -- /path/to/cronjob --cronjobflag