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Date:      Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:58:17 +0100
From:      Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org>
To:        Zbigniew Szalbot <zszalbot@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cron to attach a gz file
Message-ID:  <47A18DA9.50207@boosten.org>
In-Reply-To: <94136a2c0801310049k22d7a890kac8a2482ac49333c@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <94136a2c0801310049k22d7a890kac8a2482ac49333c@mail.gmail.com>

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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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