For a *nix box, the simple/historic way has been to run the tasks from cron and append log output from them to text files or the system logs. If you really mea

For a *nix box, the simple/historic way has been to run the tasks from cron and append log output from them to text files or the system logs. If you really mean statuses, as in exit statuses, wrap the programs in shell scripts which print out the programs' exit codes. It's unfashionable these days I think, but still works for me.