Every few years when I setup a new computer I stumble over the same question: "How do I get notified of failed cron jobs again?". It is pretty simple, but as I tripped over it again today, here is a little write-up so I do not have to google this again. Or potentially I will and then hopefully this post will turn up in the search results.😉
As cron is an old program from the days where the server use case was the predominant one, it will send emails with the output it's jobs will produce. Now I don't want my desktop machine to send emails over the internet to myself about broken jobs, when I am working on the very same machine at the same time.
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