Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 01:18:05 -0600 From: "Mike Loiterman" <mike@ascendency.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: cron job Message-ID: <001f01c1dc72$0b391f80$0301a8c0@mike>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have set up a cron job to do a dump every morning at 5am. The first night I had an error in the script. The dump worked but one of the other commands I had included in the script, unmounting and remounting samba shares, had the wrong path. I was emailed the output of the dump including the path error. I subsequently fixed the errors in the mounting and unmounting of the samba shares, but last night I didn't receive the email I was previously getting before I fixed the errors that listed the results of the dump. The cron entries look like this: 30 5 * * 0 root /usr/local/sbin/fullback 30 5 * * 1-6 root /usr/local/sbin/incbackup fullback is the same as incback except fullback does a level 0 dump and incback does a level 9 dump. incbackup looks like this: #!/bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/um mt rewind dump 9uaf /dev/nrsa0 / # backs up the root filesystem dump 9uaf /dev/nrsa0 /usr # backs up /usr dump 9uaf /dev/nrsa0 /var # backs up /var /usr/local/sbin/md um simply unmounts a few samba shares and md remounts them. Originally, I just put um and md without the path, which caused problems. I put the path in and everything worked, minus the email I think I'm supposed to get. My questions are: 1. If the dump runs normally, shouldn't I receive the output of the dump via an email sent to root? 2. If I am supposed to be receiving this email, why aren't I? 3. If I'm not supposed to receive this email, how can I force the cron job to email the results to me? Mike Loiterman mike@ascendency.net PGP Key 0xD1B9D18E -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0.4 Comment: Message digitally signed by Mike Loiterman iQA/AwUBPK1PrGjZbUnRudGOEQIHqACeOIK5pieVcPq+RMPlbnKDJ3ToWAcAoKbN iwY9n15Mwi/rXrXbAnk4i1BA =19gm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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