From: Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-10-08T01:56:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Customizing Exception, but only when an error is raised

Rob Rypka wrote:

> I thought cron (at least Vixie cron) sends mail whenever a script has
> console output.  Generally, when I do cron stuff, I only have output
> if something goes wrong.  If Ruby throws an uncaught exception, the
> output is pretty much what I would want to see anyways.

The admin was getting irritated with the mail that would collect, so we 
redirected stderr to the log as well, per his request.

Also, sometimes that mail would simply disappear into the ether, or appear days 
later.  It just wasn't reliable, for reasons unknown.

Regards,

Dan