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From: Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org>
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Subject: Re: cron to attach a gz file
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Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I know I can use
> 
> mail -s "logfile " < /var/log/httpd_access.log
> 
> in cron to email the content of a log file to a particular email
> address but how do I make that log file a binary attachment (*.gz)?

gzip -c /var/log/httpd_access.log | uuencode httpd_access.log.gz | mail 
-s "logfile" someone@somewhere

Peter
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