Crontab and mailx

[Iqbal Khan_2]

Hello all,
When executing a job from the shell and outputting the output to mailx (cat /job | mailx ???s subject mailaddress.com) I get the output as an attachment. I then setup the same job to execute from cron and was unable to get the output as an attachment.
Appreciate all feedback.
Thanks

[Craig Rants · Accepted solution]

One thing to remember about cron is that you should always put the absolute path in all your cron entries. cron has no $PATH, so that would be the first place to start. Change your entry and see what happens.

GL,
C

[Andi Rigauer]

Hi ,

try this:

mailx ???s subject mailaddress.com < /job

[Deshpande Prashant]

Hi
For running from cron give full path foe all commands.
I would use
#/sbin/cat /tmp/testfile |/usr/bin/mailx -s "Subject of email" EMAIL-ADDRESS.


Thanks.
Prashant Deshpande.

[harry d brown jr]

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[F Verschuren]

This is what help for me:

#! /usr/bin/sh
/sbin/cat /tmp/testfile |/usr/bin/mailx -s "Subject of email" EMAIL@ADDRESS

hth,