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I'm posting here my cron job for getting notifications about application errors.

I run it each day to give me a list of the application errors which occurred in the last 24 hours.

This is what it does ...

• Finds all files named either 'error_log' or 'CiviCRM.log'
• Prints their contents
• Deletes them (so I don't receive the same error notification twice)
• (cron emails me the result if it is non-empty)

It works for CiviCRM 2.x running under Joomla! 1.5.x on a Linux server. If you aren't comfortable deleting error files, you could modify the script to archive them.

#!/bin/bash
#
# Find files called 'error_log' and 'CiviCRM.log', show their contents, and remove them
# Replace <JOOMLA_ROOT_DIRECTORY> with the absolute directory path to your Joomla! installation
#

find <JOOMLA_ROOT_DIRECTORY> \
    -type f \
    \( -name error_log -o -name CiviCRM.log \) \
        -exec echo "***" "{}" "***" \; \
        -exec cat "{}" \; \
        -exec rm "{}" \; \
        -exec echo " " \;
Ken

(If you find the script useful, please applaud. If you modify the script could you share that via a reply? A useful extension would be to implement the script for Drupal.)