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Re: how to set up a mailx of report

 
bob the spod
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how to set up a mailx of report

Is it viable to set up a crontab script for this task.
I need to get a report which is generated from an awk script to be sent out once a day to various users.
what do you suggest I was thinking of setting up a script, then simply getting crontab to run it at a certain time
thanks for any suggestions
bob
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Robin Wakefield
Honored Contributor

Re: how to set up a mailx of report

Hi Bob,

Sounds good to me. Remember that any output generated by a cron job is mailed to the user under which the cronjob runs, so make sure you capture all output if you want to prevent this happening, or redirect to /dev/null, e.g.:

0 0 * * * yourscript >/dev/null 2>&1

I'd put all the mail commands within your script rather than on the cron line.

rgds, Robin
Steven E. Protter
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Re: how to set up a mailx of report

/scriptname 2>&1 | mailx -s "Email subject" someemail@someplace.net

stick that in cron and it will mail all output from the script in the body of the script.


attached, production mailfile script will let you email a file(report output to disk) as an attachement to anyone you want.

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Randy Tarrier
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Re: how to set up a mailx of report

Hi Bob,
Another way of doing it if you don't want all the output from the cron job mailed:
scriptname >2&1
.
.
.
in your script:
report > report.txt
elm -s"subject" whoever@wherever.com
hth

Randy
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Sridhar Bhaskarla
Honored Contributor

Re: how to set up a mailx of report

Hi Bob,

Since you are going to send it to multiple users, make your script look like

//

USERS="user1@yourdomain.com user2@yourdomain.com user3@yourdomain.com"

your_awkscript

cat report |mailx -s "Awk report" $USERS

//

Then put it in the cronjob as mentioned by others.

-Sri
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