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Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 14:11:01 +1300 (NZDT)
From: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>
To: Peter Brezny <peter@sysadmin-inc.com>
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Subject: Re: Dump console output sent to mail address possible?
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How about redirecting 2>&1 | mail <email-address>

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Juha

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On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Peter Brezny wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
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