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From: john@pta.oz.au (John Sims)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Re: Mailing the output of a command run from cron
Message-ID: <6434@pta.oz.au>
Date: 11 Apr 91 22:20:59 GMT
References: <1031@lucifer.UUCP>
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation, Sydney
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In article <1031@lucifer.UUCP> rst@lucifer.UUCP ( 233) writes:
>I am trying to get cron to mail me the standard output and standard error of
>regularly run commands. I have an entry that looks like this:-
>
>/usr/local/etc/crontab/evening |& mail -s "Evening cleanup" sysadmin
>
>I know the command is being executed, but the mail is never sent. Any ideas?

Assumption: you are talking about ucb cron, not att.

Two things:

Your command line uses csh syntax. cron only talks Bourne shell.

cron tends to run with a fairly restricted path (ours runs with only /bin and
/usr/bin), and /bin/mail (again, on our system) doesn't like -s. Try using
the full pathname (probably /usr/ucb/mail).

If this doesn't get you anywhere, let me know wither by posting or email.

John.

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