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Old 05-21-2008
ejaggers ejaggers is offline
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Originally Posted by unSpawn View Post
If the job fails does it get logged somewhere? If so, wouldn't it be easier to run a logwatcher, add a condition and trigger it to send an e-mail?
dbexport creates a huge log file called dbexport.out, and at the end it has "dbexport complete", if all is well. I don't know anthing about logwatcher, nor how to send email from unix TRU64.