cron-executable script (no output except in case of failure) for testing Open Tree services

crontest.sh

#!/bin/bash
PAR_DIR=/home/mholder
TEST_OT_DIR="${PAR_DIR}/test-ot-ws"
TEST_LOG_DIR="${PAR_DIR}/testotlogs"
source "${PAR_DIR}/env/test-otc-ws/bin/activate" || exit
source "${TEST_OT_DIR}/dev/activate.sh" || exit
cd "${TEST_OT_DIR}" || exit
date > "${TEST_LOG_DIR}/latest.log"
nf=0
if ! git pull origin >> "${TEST_LOG_DIR}/latest.log" 2>&1 ; then
	nf=1
fi
if ! test-ot-ws --threads=1 --api-version=v3 >> "${TEST_LOG_DIR}/latest.log" 2>&1 ; then
	nf=1
fi
cat "${TEST_LOG_DIR}/latest.log" >> "${TEST_LOG_DIR}/recent.log"
if ! test $nf -eq 0 ; then
	echo Open Tree Services Failing > "${TEST_LOG_DIR}/emailmessage.txt"
	cat "${TEST_LOG_DIR}/latest.log" >> "${TEST_LOG_DIR}/emailmessage.txt"
	cat "${TEST_LOG_DIR}/emailmessage.txt"
	exit 1
fi

Tested with a python 3.7.0 virtualenv and the executable from https://github.com/OpenTreeOfLife/test-ot-ws as the testing script