Cronwrap is a utility that offers more control over the execution of a cron job than the standard cron daemon allows. It can ensure and report that the job completes within a specified time period. It can email and/or log any output produced from the job. It reports on the exit status of the job.
This was developed at the University of Wollongong to manage the email output from scheduled jobs with cron. It has been running successfully in a Solaris environment since February 2001. It is reported to work on other Unix like platforms like Linux & FreeBSD. I make an effort to ensure source code changes are compatible with other platforms that I know the tool is being used on, although I do not necessarilly test changes on all platforms.
The code is lint free and should be kept that way. There is plenty of room for development and new features, I am happy to receive patches.
Scott Hamilton <sah@uow.edu.au>