On Friday 21 March 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Hi > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 0 18 * * * rsync -av /var/lib/mysql [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/ > > If i put this two lines in crontab it will run correctly,My > requirement was to create a script, this script should indicate > success or failures and the reason for failure
crontab will only send a mail is there is anyput to stdout. What output do you get if you run the rsync manually? Do you have any packages installed that can actually send the mail? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- [email protected] mailing list

