CRON / Planned Tasks - Where Can I see the output before the e-mail is send?

EtwasNAS · 2. Februar 2021

Hey there.

I start a shred of an 1 tb usb-3.0 hdd. Because I did not know the screen binary/cmd before, I start this with a cron from the omv web-interface.

The cron was started succesfully but the main problem is that I want to know the output at the moment.

Try to search in different /var/log/ files but can not found anything.

I know it is a special question but: Is there a place where the output is collected for a running cron?

Would be great to see more than the blinking hdd-led. Would be great to be able to estimate the hours it will take

mi-hol · 2. Februar 2021

votdev this question has come up for similar other topics, guess it requires developer insight to answer

mi-hol · 2. Februar 2021

Maybe until Volker has time to answer the code on github could give an indication

https://github.com/openmediava…oy/cron/20userdefined.sls

Code

create_cron_userdefined:
  file.managed:
    - name: "/etc/cron.d/openmediavault-userdefined"
    - source:
      - salt://{{ tpldir }}/files/userdefined.j2
    - template: jinja
    - context:
        jobs: {{ cron_jobs | json }}
    - user: root
    - group: root
    - mode: 644

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votdev · 2. Februar 2021

Cron does not log anything, so the shell command you're executing needs to be take care about that.

EtwasNAS · 2. Februar 2021

Zitat von votdev

Cron does not log anything, so the shell command you're executing needs to be take care about that.

THX for the reply. But there must be a space to store the current output, or not?

I dont know how often this could happen in another scenario out there. I just found no solution for that. So I thought: Why did you just not try to ask the omv community.

votdev · 2. Februar 2021

Zitat von EtwasNAS

THX for the reply. But there must be a space to store the current output, or not?

This is all up to you. Cron is simply executing what you've configured. If shred does not support logging to syslog then you have to do it somehow. If you need to do it manually, the problem is how to redirect the shred output line by line to syslog. But i assume there should be a solution out there anywhere.

CRON / Planned Tasks - Where Can I see the output before the e-mail is send?

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