Hmm....my only thought here is...we ARE talking about running this from a separate aolserver instance, correct? If not...if your aolserver instance fails, it's not gonna be unable to run the job to tell you that it died *grin*. Or, if this is understood to be non-complete-and-total-crash errors only. Is watchdog still around separately? You're still going to need something NOT associated with the app itself running to let you know it isn't broken. (admittedly, angry websurfers may let you do that as well...but that's rather kludgy (to be kind). At work, we certainly prefer that our cron scripts find db problems before annoyed users do!)
