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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!Norway.EU.net!EU.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!minerva.ibernet.es!artemis.ibernet.es!usenet From: Antonio Navarro Navarro <antonio@host.bemarnet.es> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Redirecting output of cron Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 17:32:09 +0200 Organization: BemarNet Management Lines: 32 Message-ID: <31C03479.B65@host.bemarnet.es> References: <31bec05e.7376476@news.hq.af.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: ariadna.bemarnet.es Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02b1 [es] (Win95; I) To: Scott Gregory <sgregory@pubspo.hq.af.mil> Scott Gregory wrote: > Is it possible to have cron email the results of a script it ran sent > to a list of users instead of root??? > > I have cron checking to see if a file had been dropped by a user. > When it sees the file it runs a script to process the file. When it > finishes it dumps all the screen output from the script to a mail > message to root. Is there any way to have this output mailed to the > uses that need to know if the script processed??? Well, you can make a shell script including a call to the sendmail program, providing the e-mail address of the user... Example : if the file checed is "/usr/file.checked" and the output screen is generated by the 'gen-out' program and this program shows the output in stdout, you can do the following : #!/bin/sh if [-f /usr/file.checked ]; then gen-out | sendmail user@host.domain fi Hope this helps. Regards. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Antonio Navarro Navarro E-mail: webmaster@bemarnet.es | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BemarNet Management Phone : +34-6-165.66.44 | | Makes business easier... \\\ Fax : +34-6-165.65.14 | | http://www.bemarnet.es (. .) | +------------------------------o00-(_)-00o------------------------------+ | Have a nice day - Have a nice day - Have a nice day - Have a nice day | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+