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Old 09-01-2008
Annihilannic Annihilannic is offline Forum Advisor  
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You could do something like this:

Code:
if something was successful
then
      echo "$(date): successfully did something" > /tmp/success.log
else
      echo "$(date): something failed " > /tmp/error.log
      exit 1
fi