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importance of /var/mail

Hi
When an entry will be made to the file /var/mail/<user-id> .

I have 100 scripts under a specific user id(dgircc) in cron .SO inrder to check the whether the script has sucessfully run or not and if not to generate an email
if i mention the code like
Code:
#!/bin/ksh -p
     2  fsize=`ls -lrt /var/mail/dgircc |awk '{print $5}'`
     3  if [ $fsize -gt 0 ] ;then
     4  more /var/mail/dgircc >> /var/mail/dgircc.old
     5  uuencode /var/mail/dgircc /var/mail/dgircc | mailx -s "dgircc report "  mailid 
     6  cp /dev/null /var/mail/dgircc
     7  fi

will this solve my requirement
Please let me know if there are any good ideas to monitor all the scripts under cron which has failed and to generate a consolidated report of those(which are failed) .

Last edited by pludi; 09-01-2010 at 04:26 AM.. Reason: code tags, please..
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CONFLICT(8)                                                          [nmh-1.5]                                                         CONFLICT(8)

NAME
conflict - search for alias/password conflicts SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/mh/conflict [-search directory] [-mail name] [-version] [-help] [aliasfiles ...] DESCRIPTION
Conflict is a program that checks to see if the interface between nmh and the transport system is in good shape Conflict also checks for maildrops in /var/mail which do not belong to a valid user. It assumes that no user name will start with `.', and thus ignores files in /var/mail which begin with `.'. It also checks for entries in the group(5) file which do not belong to a valid user, and for users who do not have a valid group number. In addition duplicate users and groups are noted. If the -mail name switch is used, then the results will be sent to the specified name. Otherwise, the results are sent to the standard output. The -search directory switch can be used to search directories other than /var/mail and to report anomalies in those directories. The -search directory switch can appear more than one time in an invocation to conflict. Conflict should be run under cron(8), or whenever system accounting takes place. FILES
/etc/nmh/mts.conf nmh mts configuration file /etc/passwd List of users /etc/group List of groups /usr/bin/mh/mhmail Program to send mail /var/mail/ Directory of mail drop PROFILE COMPONENTS
None SEE ALSO
mh-alias(5) DEFAULTS
`aliasfiles' defaults to /etc/nmh/MailAliases CONTEXT
None MH.6.8 11 June 2012 CONFLICT(8)