Help Getting Root's email to recipient
Alexander Dalloz
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Sun Apr 17 18:56:11 UTC 2005
Am So, den 17.04.2005 schrieb Claude Jones um 20:40:
> Well, I tried this, but I probably misunderstood where you intended I put it.
> My crontab calls up this script:
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start
> gotmail -u [my username] -p [mypassword] -f claude_jones at levitjames.com
> --delete
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop
Put the 3 commands - but see Matthew's comment about Sendmail running (I
second to not stop that service) - into 1 bash script and run that from
crontab.
> I tried putting your suggested line, "/dev/null 2>&1" at the top of this
> script, an after the second line, but neither of these worked --
> Is this the right script? Right position in the script? Or are you speaking of
> putting this line in the Perl script? When you say "behind the script
> command" I'm not clear what you mean, exactly.
Well, the command sequence is meant to redirect the output to electronic
nirvana.
gotmail -u [my username] -p [mypassword] -f claude_jones at levitjames.com
--delete > /dev/null 2>&1
> Claude Jones
Alexander
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