I think the only way is to have your cronjob do the emailing of the
output, and then delete (or move) the output file so it's not repeated
on the next run. Something like:

#!/bin/bash

## Call actual job script here.
./do-tool-things.sh

## Email output to maintainers.
echo -e 'Subject: [tools.toolname] Job output\nContent-Type: text/plain;
charset=UTF-8' | cat - /data/project/toolname/cron-tools.jobname.out |
/usr/sbin/exim -odf -i tools.toolname@tools.wmflabs.org

## Remove output file.
rm /data/project/toolname/cron-tools.jobname.out

Although of course the details might differ for different tools.


On 22/6/21 4:52 pm, Shrinivasan T wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a bot at toolforge, running weekly once in cron job using "jsub"
>
> Followed the below link for the setup.
> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Pywikibot
>
> Getting the JOBNAME.out and JOBNAME.err files at the home folder.
>
> Is there any other way like email notification to get alerts, if some
> error happens?
>
> I think the files JOBNAME.out and JOBNAME.err will be keep on growing
> on the bason host login.toolforge.org
>
> How to avoid this?
>
> Thanks.
>
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