Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 17:43:16 -0600 From: Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to> To: Peter Brezny <peter@sysadmin-inc.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: piping dump output to mail user. Message-ID: <20010129174316.I17961@billygoat.slb.to> In-Reply-To: <000001c08a48$492ae440$46010a0a@sysadmininc.com>; from peter@sysadmin-inc.com on Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 06:07:42PM -0500 References: <000001c08a48$492ae440$46010a0a@sysadmininc.com>
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> I was hoping to be able to mail what dump would normally output to > the screen with a command like this in crontab > > dump (variables) | mail peter@sysadmin-inc.com > > Although the dumps run, I don't get anything in the mail. Maybe the output is going to stderr instead of stdout? Try # dump blah blah 2>&1 | mail whomever Also, check crontab(5) and read about the MAILTO variable. Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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