From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 12 7:42:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx3out.umbc.edu (mx3out.umbc.edu [130.85.253.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8761F37B424 for ; Sat, 12 May 2001 07:42:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu) Received: from linux2.gl.umbc.edu (IDENT:gmiddl1@linux2.gl.umbc.edu [130.85.60.16]) by mx3out.umbc.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4CEhfb17023 for ; Sat, 12 May 2001 10:43:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 10:42:45 -0400 (EDT) From: "G. Jason Middleton" To: Subject: how to email logs files Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG what is the easiest to have a log file such as /var/log/maillog emailed to a specific email address daily? I know cron can do this but how would i go about it in the crontab? hows about a script file that emails the log to me and have cron run the script daily. Would this work? What kinda syntax would be necessary for this? Regards, G. Jason Middleton _______________________________________________________________________________ "Insert quote here" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message