09-12-2001
I presume that you are using a shell script to run this back up.
What you could do is to do a test condition on the last command to see if was a success. zero being a success and anything else a fail.
For example
tar blah blah blah
if
[[ $? != 0 ]]
then
printf "There is a problem with the back up\n"
else
printf "The Backup Was Ok\n"
fi
I guess you could replace the printf with the command 'wall'
man wall for more details.
Hope this is of some help.
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NAME
cron - The system clock daemon
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/cron
DESCRIPTION
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found within the crontab files. Commands that are to run once only are found within the at files. You submit crontab and at file entries
by using the crontab and at commands. Because the cron process exits only when killed or when the system stops, only one cron daemon
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checking for new or changed files at regularly scheduled intervals. The cron command creates a log of its activities. The cron daemon
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ing process: Audit control and disposition masks Kernel authorizations
DIAGNOSTICS
The at and batch programs will refuse to accept jobs submitted from processes whose login user ID is different from the real user ID.
FILES
Specifies the command path. Main cron directory Directory containing the crontab files. List of allowed users. List of denied users His-
tory information for cron Queue description file for at, batch, and cron
RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: at(1), crontab(1), rc0(8), rc2(8), rc3(8)
Files: queuedefs(4) delim off
cron(8)