From: kevin lyda (kevin at domain suberic.net)
Date: Fri 21 Jul 2000 - 14:23:04 IST
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 11:41:16AM +0100, Burke, Gary : GIG IS&T wrote:
> ] Not as such. Starting up netscape is not *really* what cron was written
> ]for...
>
> Is it possible for you to just run 'mail' to send your message...
>
> mail user at domain domain.tld -s your subject here < filecontainingtexttosend
or if you want to send it as an attachment you can use mutt:
mutt user at domain domain.tld -s 'your subject here' -a filecontainingtexttosend
also, in your mail line it should be:
mail user at domain domain.tld -s 'your subject here' < filecontainingtexttosend
in general try it out on the command line, and then drop it into
your crontab. also note that errors/output will be mailed to you
(unless you request otherwise).
man 5 crontab
kevin
-- kevin at domain suberic.net "there's nothing wrong with windows 2000 that fork()'ed on 37058400 linux can't fix." -- va linux t-shirt meatspace place: work
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