On четвер 19 липень 2007, Tom Evans wrote:
= Teaching cron about file types/mime types is an awful idea
Why? My particular cron-job generates HTML. Somebody else's might generate a
JPG image -- from their telescope every morning. There is no reason for these
jobs to have to do the e-mailing on t
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 07:55 -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> On четвер 19 липень 2007, Tom Evans wrote:
> = Or you could patch cron to use libmagic
>
> Done:
>
> http://aldan.algebra.com/~mi/cron-mime.diff
>
> It even works now...
>
> = and have cron scripts that will only work on one box.
On четвер 19 липень 2007, Tom Evans wrote:
= Or you could patch cron to use libmagic
Done:
http://aldan.algebra.com/~mi/cron-mime.diff
It even works now...
= and have cron scripts that will only work on one box.
And send-pr the diffs to FreeBSD :-)
-mi
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On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 19:14 -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> On субота 14 липень 2007, Daniel Bye wrote:
> = So it's beginning to look as if your best bet is in fact to make your
> = script handle sending the mail.
>
> Yeah, seems like it...
>
> = Not the cleanest solution, but one that will get y
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 06:21:16PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin typed:
> = To accomplish this I have my cron job run a script like this
>
> Sorry, I missed the most important part. Your script just uses /usr/bin/mail,
> the same way cron does. You are not adding anything, not already present in
> cron
At 05:02 PM 7/14/2007, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
Derek Ragona wrote:
= = I'd rather avoid poluting my script with e-mail sending code...
= You need to change your script to send the email itself.
Thank you, Derek, but -- as I stated already -- I wanted to see, if this can
be avoided...
Doing so
On неділя 15 липень 2007, Daniel Bye wrote:
= Is /usr/share/misc/magic.mime of any use? Apparently it is consulted by
= file(1) when called with -i. According to libmagic(3), magic_open() with
= the MAGIC_MIME flag should do the same.
Yes, indeed -- just the ticket... Thanks.
Now, I have not rece
Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> On субота 14 липень 2007, Daniel Bye wrote:
> = So it's beginning to look as if your best bet is in fact to make your
> = script handle sending the mail.
>
> Yeah, seems like it...
>
> = Not the cleanest solution, but one that will get your messages formatted
> = exactly
At 03:03 PM 7/14/2007, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
Hello!
I have a script launched from cron every morning, that gets certain data over
the Internet from a remote computer, compares the new data with that from the
previous day, and outputs the difference (if any).
I'm relying on the fact, that cron
On субота 14 липень 2007, Daniel Bye wrote:
= So it's beginning to look as if your best bet is in fact to make your
= script handle sending the mail.
Yeah, seems like it...
= Not the cleanest solution, but one that will get your messages formatted
= exactly how you want them.
Well, I started loo
Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> = Alter your script to add the 'Content-Type: text/html' header.
>
> No, I'm afraid, doing this will make the quoted text part of the _body_ of
> the
> message.
Ack. Yes, you're quite right. Sorry for the bum advice.
> = > Maybe, cron should apply file(1)-like logic to
Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have a script launched from cron every morning, that gets certain data over
> the Internet from a remote computer, compares the new data with that from the
> previous day, and outputs the difference (if any).
>
> I'm relying on the fact, that cron e-mails m
On субота 14 липень 2007, Daniel Bye wrote:
= > How can I force the ``Content-Type: text/html'' header without hacking
= > cron's sources? I'd rather avoid poluting my script with e-mail sending
= > code...
=
= Alter your script to add the 'Content-Type: text/html' header.
No, I'm afraid, doing t
= To accomplish this I have my cron job run a script like this
Sorry, I missed the most important part. Your script just uses /usr/bin/mail,
the same way cron does. You are not adding anything, not already present in
cron -- your script should simply produce output to stdout. Cron will mail
all
Derek Ragona wrote:
= = I'd rather avoid poluting my script with e-mail sending code...
= You need to change your script to send the email itself.
Thank you, Derek, but -- as I stated already -- I wanted to see, if this can
be avoided...
Since you posted your script, I'll comment on it. First
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