Nestor wrote: > Well, I guess I am about to start reading how to set an alias because I think > that is the only way I will be able todo what I need to. >
cron does seem to be fussy about syntax, and I don't see any reference to multiple recipients. And not only that but I can't even seem to get a simple-minded MAILTO to work right now! O-Hmpfffht! Maybe I misread the syntax explanation in the man pages or maybe even cron is broke! ==> But (as the perl hackers say), there is always more than one way to do it.. You can put the email operations into a script and have cron call your script to both send the email notifications, as well as do whatever work you want to do. crontab -e ---------- 01 21 * * * /home/user99/bin/doit.sh in /home/user99/bin/doit.sh --------------------------- echo `date` "doit.sh: about to start job:" | bin/mail -s startjob [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] commandline-to-do-the-job RC="$?" echo `date` "doit.sh: job completed with result-code=$?" | bin/mail -s startjob [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------- -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
