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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!ux5.cso.uiuc.edu!igor From: igor@students.uiuc.edu (Igor Vladim Roshchin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Redirecting output of cron Date: 12 Jun 1996 19:50:27 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4pn723$8bn@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <31bec05e.7376476@news.hq.af.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: ux5.cso.uiuc.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Scott Gregory (sgregory@pubspo.hq.af.mil) 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??? : The script is in roots crontab since I want to control how often the : system checks and the users aren't users of the bsd box, they drop the : files into a NFS'ed directory. : Thanks : C-ya : Scott The script you are starting from your cron should be started as follows: /path/script 2>&1 | sendmail allusers where you can either make an alias to allusers (in /etc/aliases) or just put down all the users you have. IgoR aka StR@komkon.org