From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Tue Oct  3 01:28:13 2006
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7558116A403
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Tue,  3 Oct 2006 01:28:13 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from atom.powers@gmail.com)
Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.186])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D255143D45
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Tue,  3 Oct 2006 01:28:12 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from atom.powers@gmail.com)
Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id n29so31706nfc
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:28:11 -0700 (PDT)
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com;
	h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references;
	b=TXiuK9Trz0C0kVOH4zaDNuW5sAEjsK6vtdZbmy8bjEKpdObTSTSPwfXjxqgfg4ZPPwu0hXijtgUX1ty2Pzrvr9nK+GjJvWV7r/Sq9m7Wn7//myQiPFRAUrihu2oup5Xk+yM53nELGmt52fiigXeIicsqXyWlYw4tGBNPaE7gRR8=
Received: by 10.49.20.5 with SMTP id x5mr161910nfi;
	Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:28:09 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.49.63.18 with HTTP; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 18:28:09 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <df9ac37c0610021828i61aa2714n2219b619fbcbfec8@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 18:28:09 -0700
From: "Atom Powers" <atom.powers@gmail.com>
To: "jan gestre" <freebsd.ph@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <a25afc300610021749h500dc4acv4c9b958859cda7cc@mail.gmail.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
References: <a25afc300610021749h500dc4acv4c9b958859cda7cc@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: scripting question
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:28:13 -0000

On 10/2/06, jan gestre <freebsd.ph@gmail.com> wrote:
> i made a script and put on root's crontab, however it's not doing or showing
> the output that is forwarded to my email address correctly therefore i'm not
> sure if it is working or not. below is what the script look like:
>
...
>
> 30 8 * * * root /usr/local/bin/cvsrun | mail -s "Daily cvsup run and
> portmanager" user1
>

Why don't you make this a periodic script. Put it in
'/usr/local/etc/periodic/weekly/299.cvrun' and it will be run every
week with the rest of your periodic; with periodic you get much
better control over where output is sent.

-- 
--
Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard.
--Atom Powers--