From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 9 16:55:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from virtual2.sysadmin-inc.com (unknown [209.16.228.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D221B37B6A9 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 16:55:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 2953 invoked by alias); 10 Feb 2001 00:55:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wkst) (10.10.1.70) by ssl.sysadmin-inc.com with SMTP; 10 Feb 2001 00:55:31 -0000 Reply-To: From: "Peter Brezny" To: Subject: Dump console output sent to mail address possible? Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 19:54:44 -0500 Message-ID: <003701c092fc$0fb7ede0$46010a0a@sysadmininc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've got a script executed by cron that runs a dump command: dump -1ua -f /bkup/`date +%y%m`-bkup/incr.`date +%y%m%d`.root.bkup / Which I like, but I'd like dump to send what it normally puts on the console to me via e-mail. i tried adding | mail peter@sysadmin-inc.com but this only sends a blank message. how can i convince it to send the output from the dump program. TIA Peter Brezny SysAdmin Services Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message