Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 15:45:44 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <Jonathan.Chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "bad day_of_the_month" (yes really !!!) cron questions Message-ID: <20000505154544.E798@jonc.itouch.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <01f001bfb641$f7228f70$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER>; from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au on Fri, May 05, 2000 at 03:25:28AM %2B0000 References: <018e01bfb62c$58481b00$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> <20000505131420.A798@jonc.itouch.co.nz> <01aa01bfb632$612c3390$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> <20000505145429.B798@jonc.itouch.co.nz> <01f001bfb641$f7228f70$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER>
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On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 03:25:28AM +0000, Doug Young wrote: > > It looks like the most straightforward way to do this is with the default > system crontab (attached). The question is exactly what line to use to > tell mail to actually "send". When I send files from a remote FreeBSD > system manually I use something like > > "mail blah@someplace.com < filename" and then control-D , but I can't > imagine how to tell the gremlins in the remote box to hop on the > non-existent keyboard & press the keys. Well, the "mail someone@someplace.com < filename" doesn't actually require a control-D to terminate; so you could quite easily put something like: 59 1 * * * root mail someone@someplace.com < /tmp/some-file into /etc/crontab on the remote box, and it'll do what you want. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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