man mail
Then you can do something like
grep stuff /var/log/messages | mail -s "grep of messages" \
-cc me@backupdomain.com me@realdomain.com
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Jim Wildman Lead Consultant, divine, Inc
jim@rossberry.com jim.wildman@divine.com
www.rossberry.com www.divine.com
(972)560-7356
All opinions expressed are mine and not my employer's.
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Mikes work account wrote:
> What I am attempting to do:
>
> Each night we run a series of reports. Those reports need to be sent via
> email to different recipients depending on the report. I want to do this
> automatically from cron.
>
> How do I do that? I know how to execute a program from cron,, but what
> program do I execute and how do I attach the reports to an email and address
> the email without opening pine or sendmail. Do I need to know the file
> format for the outgoing email and create that file and submit it to sendmail
> or what?
>
> I need some direction to look,,,
>
> Michael C. Rock
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net]On Behalf Of patrick
> > grantham
> > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 11:15 AM
> > To: slug@nks.net
> > Subject: Re: [SLUG] pine question
> >
> >
> > I use sendmail and an hourly cron job know the IP assign to "me" from twc.
> > In a text file called msg.txt:
> > I'm alive. look at my source from my IP
> > ..
> >
> >
> > hourly cron job:
> > sendmail pwgrant@mailandnews.com <msg.txt
> >
> > If IP changes, I wait for the top of the hour and check my email.
> > This may
> > not be what you're trying accomplish, but I hope it helps.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mikes work account" <mrock@stewartsigns.com>
> > To: <slug@nks.net>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 10:39 AM
> > Subject: [SLUG] pine question
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Is it posible to get pine or other email program to take its
> > commands from
> > a
> > > macro instead of keyboard input?
> > >
> > > I want to invoke 'pine' and have it send an email with an attachment
> > > unattended, as scheduled in cron.
> > >
> > >
> > > Michael C. Rock
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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