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From: "Steven Fletcher (Shellnet IRC administrator)" <ircadmin@shellnet.co.uk>
To: "Kwoody" <kwoody@citytel.net>,
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Subject: RE: mail log to myself
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 11:01:56 -0000
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> 
> 
> I have a little cron job that creates a log at night. How can one mail 
> said log to myself? Its not big only about 300 bytes.
> 
> thanks!

A simple way would be to do the following:

cat <mail log file>  | mail -s "Mail logs" <your email address>

As an example:

cat /var/log/maillog | mail -s "Mail logs" kwoody@whatever.com

Hope this helps....

Steven Fletcher
Shellnet IRC admin