How to send mail to the user running at jobs

[Aji Thomas]

Hi guys,

I recently made a backup scripts that is scheduled daily at 8:30. The issue is that within the backup script I have redirected all the output to an file, so that i can log all the relevant information.
But now I have a backuplog file and I need to send this output as mail to the user initiating the at job command

Please advice me.
AJI

[Thayanidhi · Accepted solution]

cat | sendmail user@domain.com

[Thayanidhi]

Instead redirection (>) use pipe (|) to "sendmail user@domain".

Regds
TT

[Matthew_50]

include this line at the end of your backup script.

mailx -s "BACKUP LOG" who@somewhere.com < ./backup.log

[Aji Thomas]

hi guys,

While trying to send mails it gives warnings,
$ mailx -s "test" user@domain.com
sh: domain.com: not found.

Please help me
AJi

[Muthukumar_5]

The problem is hostname resolvation.

You have to try if the user is in local machine as,

mailx -s "hi" test@localhost

where, test is user name. localhost entry has to be in /etc/hosts file.

If you want to sent mail in the domain then,

--- /etc/nsswitch.conf --

hosts: files dns

--- /etc/resolve.con --

domain: aji.com
nameserver: xx.xx.xx.xx

Check the resolvation as,

nslookup .aji.com

Try as,

sendmail -v @.com
hi
bye
ctrl+d

hth.