Changelog

#2024

#2024-04-08 - v2.3

• FIX/ UPDATE: remove set -eu -o pipefail because of unexpected behaviours
• UPDATE: use version number of inc_cronfunctions.sh in all scripts

#2024-04-04 - v2.2

• ADDED: cronstatus.sh - skip intro header (-i)
• UPDATE: harden against bash pipefail option

#2024-04-04 - v2.1

• ADDED: cronstatus.sh - skip intro header (-i)
• UPDATE: harden against bash pipefail option

#2024-04-03 - v2.0

Changes

• ADDED: hooks - execute your own script before and after each cronjob
• ADDED: Support for NO_COLOR=1
• ADDED: emoji support (only if NO_COLOR is not 1 and is supported)
• UPDATE: enhanced output for cronstatus.sh: show a table with last executions (max. 10 per job)
• UPDATE: cronstatus.sh got more cli parameter options
• UPDATE: renamed variables with prefix “CW_” (for cron wrapper)
• UPDATE: keep stats of returncodes and execution time for custom time (before: 4 days [fixed]; now: 14 days [can be configured with CW_KEEPDAYS])

Upgrade guide from former versions

• Update your cronwrapper.cfg … (or copy cronwrapper.cfg.dist to cronwrapper.cfg an update the values)
  • add the prefix “CW_” for existing vars which are now, eg.
    • CW_LOGDIR
    • CW_SINGLEJOB
    • CW_TOUCHFILE
  • optional: add new variables (see also cronwrapper.cfg.dist)
    • CW_KEEPDAYS=N where N ist the number of days to keep history of returncodes and execution time; default is 14 (days)
    • CW_HOOKDIR (not needed to change)

#Many years between

There were 26 minor versions v1.x. There is no changelog for them - but have a look into head section of cronwrapper.sh for some infos.

#2002

#2002-02-06 - v1.0