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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.
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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


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