====== Wishlist for a cronjob output processor ======

See also [[http://blog.zugschlus.de/archives/173-Versatile-Post-Processing-for-cronjobs-output.html|my blog.]]

[[http://blogs.turmzimmer.net/2005/08/27#cronmail|aba blogs about his wishes for post-processing of the output of cron jobs]]

Well, I have a wishlist as well (of course all items should be configurable):

  * Save cronjob output to a file
  * Append that output to log files on the system, after applying regexp filters
  * Send E-Mail to a number configurable addresses
  * Have a list of regexps that the output is filtered through before being included in the e-mail
  * Allow the preceding operation to be done multiple times for a single mail, allowing to include different "verbosity levels" in a single message to have the admin decide which to read
  * Allow certain parts of messages to be tacced (printed with line order reversed)
  * Modify message subject if certain conditions are met (for including tags like [OK], [ALERT] etc)
  * Allow arbitrary texts (preferably using macro expansion) in between message parts

You can implement these features using the cron-variable "MAILTO=post-processing" and an mail-alias, which is implemented like "cron-postprocessing       |/my/post/processing/script". 

-- Joerg Hoh