Absence of Success

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 One thing that is often overlooked when writing crons and other regular processes is health monitoring.  This usually takes the form of "Oh my god, such-and-such a script has not run successfully for 2 weeks, help!".
 
+## Absence of Success ##
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+One key thing here is that this system looks for the absence of a success message. So, if your cron starts hitting a Fatal error, this will tell you. Regular "log/email" stuff in a script will not even get hit.
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 ## Getting Started ##
 
 When you need to know if some regular process stops working, do something like this at the end of your script (when you know the job is done to satisfaction)