Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing output of cron jobs

2005-06-16 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: But your mention of bway.net reminds me of something I wanted to ask you-- are you in NYC? Yes I am - Im assuming you no longer are - where are you now ? I was a bway.net customer before I left New York, so it made me wonder. I found them a great

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing output of cron jobs

2005-06-16 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: Thanks to your help, and a slightly revised version of Neil's script (thanks, Neil!), it seems to be working. I would also like to thank the author (scottro?) or authors of the Quick-N-Dirty guides found at http://www.qnd-guides.net/ , whose Q-n-D

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing output of cron jobs

2005-06-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: OK, not so much to go off on a tangent (even though I am, so I split this off the original thread), but this brings me to another question that I've been meaning to ask. I want esync to be a cron job, and mail me the list of new and updated packages.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing output of cron jobs

2005-06-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: I just want cron (generally) to mail any output to me via my regular ISP, rather than to root, via the local mailspool. Forgot to mention: Im assuming you have ssmtp installed (as well as mailx). As far as sending the email, you will have to edit

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing output of cron jobs

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
A. Khattri schreef: On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: I just want cron (generally) to mail any output to me via my regular ISP, rather than to root, via the local mailspool. Forgot to mention: Im assuming you have ssmtp installed (as well as mailx). As far as sending the email,

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing output of cron jobs

2005-06-14 Thread Holly Bostick
A. Khattri schreef: On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: I just want cron (generally) to mail any output to me via my regular ISP, rather than to root, via the local mailspool. Forgot to mention: Im assuming you have ssmtp installed (as well as mailx). As far as sending the email,