Cron for sendmail

[Abhijeet_3]

I have sendmail configured on my server.

I need to send a message using mail every Friday afternoon to some users ,

What should be the correct syntax/command for email.

Thanks

Abhijeet

[Thierry Poels_1 · Accepted solution]

hi,

crontab:
30 14 * * 5 /usr/bin/mail -s "it's Friday" user1@xx user2@xx < /mydir/mymessage.txt

regards,
Thierry;

[Abhijeet_3]

Thanks Thierry,

I have a issue , the mail command is not in /usr/bin , it is in /bin. It has a permission 755.

When I use /bin/mail -s " Subject" user1@mydomain.com , it gives me permission error. ( /usr/sbin/sendmail)

This is a linux server.

Abhijeet

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

I afraid you havewrong permissions on some mail directories [var/spool/mail?].

which linux distro do you use?

[Thierry Poels_1]

ooops, sorry about the "/usr/bin". Just revealed my HPUX roots ;)

Tested it on Red Hat Linux:
/bin/mail -s "subj" user@comp.com < /tmp/message

which error do you exactly get?

regards,
Thierry.

[Thierry Poels_1]

BTW /usr/bin/sendmail should be -r-sr-xr-x

[Steven E. Protter]

You can adjust the cron entry to where sendmail actually is.

/usr/sbin/sendmail

Or for hard core HP-UX people, you can set up a soft link

ln -s /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/bin/mail

As far as permissions go:

chmod a+x /usr/sbin/sendmail

SEP

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

dear all,

there are many tricks with mail & sendmail permissions in different unix's [they trying to increase security, of course].

So I asked which distro Abhijeet uses. For example, in RH linux sendmail has g+s bit.