monitoring failed cron jobs

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monitoring failed cron jobs

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Guy,s I want to use nLS to monitor cron jobs, and set up NLS to alert nagios if a cron job failed. how can I do this?
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Re: monitoring failed cron jobs

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Is cron generating any sort of message when a job is failing?
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