Another crontab question

[techassist]

Hello I was wondering if anyone knew of a unix command that I could use with crontab to email a textfile from my server to me on a regular basis. I know how to set up cron but do not know how or if I could do this with sendmail or not. Thanks for any info on the subject. Jay

[kitykity]

I'm copying this from a file I already have... of course you will need to set up the time/date options at the front of the line for cron...

/usr/bin/mailx -s "subject" fred@blah.net < thisfile.eml

that's how I run it on my Sun box to send me a file... might work for you...

[techassist]

Kity thank you for the reply, I really need to learn how to do this correctly.

So I would use (fred@blah.net) as where to put the email address I want it sent to and (< thisfile.eml) as the path to the file I would like sent? Such as (< html-docs/log.txt ).

/usr/bin/mailx -s "subject" fred@blah.net < thisfile.eml

[kitykity]

Test it, I think that will work for you. In the crontab don't forget to put your time/date information at the beginning of the line.

[techassist]

I will give it a try and set it up and post the results tomorrow. And I also appreciate your assistance with this :)