You can use OnFailure in your .service file if you want some thing to happen when that specific service fails, but I don’t know if there’s a blanket way to tell systemd to notify via email when any failure happens (I wouldn’t mind a desktop notification… will investigate)
You can use
OnFailurein your.servicefile if you want some thing to happen when that specific service fails, but I don’t know if there’s a blanket way to tell systemd to notify via email when any failure happens (I wouldn’t mind a desktop notification… will investigate)When I checked a long time ago, there wasn’t.
And not only failures, often it’s useful to get mail for all executions.
I guess cron continues to have its place.