On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 11:51 +0100, solarflow99 wrote:
> I wonder what the best way is to receive email notifications from cron
> job scripts?  Say I put a script in cron.daily, and I don't want email
> for all the other cron jobs in there, just to see the output the one I
> added.

I've been using a simple Perl script called "mailif".  You run your cron
job like this:

0 * * * * /path/to/script 2>&1 | /path/to/mailif -s "Cron output" [EMAIL 
PROTECTED]

mailif detects empty output or just a single dot and does not send the
email.  It passes all its arguments to /bin/mail.

/Brian/
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