diff --git a/advanced/Templates/pihole.cron b/advanced/Templates/pihole.cron
index 02a63b74..8dc98721 100644
--- a/advanced/Templates/pihole.cron
+++ b/advanced/Templates/pihole.cron
@@ -16,7 +16,9 @@
 
 # Pi-hole: Update the ad sources once a week on Sunday at a random time in the
 #          early morning. Download any updates from the adlists
-59 1    * * 7   root    PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/" pihole updateGravity
+#          Squash output to log, then splat the log to stdout on error to allow for
+#          standard crontab job error handling.
+59 1    * * 7   root    PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/" pihole updateGravity >/var/log/pihole_updateGravity.log || cat /var/log/pihole_updateGravity.log
 
 # Pi-hole: Flush the log daily at 00:00
 #          The flush script will use logrotate if available
diff --git a/pihole b/pihole
index 0d6a45ce..fb398f29 100755
--- a/pihole
+++ b/pihole
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ reconfigurePiholeFunc() {
 
 updateGravityFunc() {
   "${PI_HOLE_SCRIPT_DIR}"/gravity.sh "$@"
-  exit 0
+  exit $?
 }
 
 queryFunc() {