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Re:Get notified when a periodic task doesn't run by r38y on Monday September 24, 2012 @10:54PM (#4568305)
You have to make sure your periodic tasks acts in such a way that if a piece fails, the rest doesn't execute (using && for instance). Then you would add hitting your special url the last thing to execute.

If you have a way of checking things like this, great! You should keep doing that!

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Re:Get notified when a periodic task doesn't run by jiggy2011 on Monday September 24, 2012 @11:52PM (#4568482)
That is true, but makes the assumption that all scripts along the way will return the correct values on errors etc. Not always true for rushed in-house scripts.

You may also have to consider warning conditions which might be more catastrophic to your "pipe" that the original program would believe.

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