send mail during cron job for sucessful task

[M E Fieu]

Thanks it works!! 

--- Charles Heselton <charles.heselton at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Not sure how you have it set up, but from my experience, cron emails
> you any output from the job.  So if you wrapped your mysqldump in a
> bash script that checked the status of the last command and printed a
> message, you could get a response from a successful job.
> 
> For example, put this in a script:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> mysqldump -u bugsroot DB1 > /home/bugsroot/db1.bak
> if [[ $? -eq 0 ]] ;then
> 	echo "MySQLDump was successful."
> else 
> 	echo "Problems with MySQLDump."
> fi
> 
> Then, change your cronjob to:
> MAILTO="david at abc.com"
> 0 18 * * * /home/bugsroot/mysql_dump.sh
> 
> 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of M E Fieu
> > Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 11:00 AM
> > To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: send mail during cron job for sucessful task 
> > 
> > Hey, I have the crontab setting up as following, whenever the 
> > job fail it will send email to me at
> > david at abc.com. but if the job is successful, it won't send 
> > mail.  Is there any way to send mail to
> > me even it is a successful task ??
> > 
> > MAILTO="david at abc.com"
> > 0 18 * * * mysqldump -u bugsroot DB1 > /home/bugsroot/db1.bak
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cron Daemon [mailto:root at w2.abc.com] 
> > Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 6:00 PM
> > To: david
> > Subject: Cron <bugsroot at w2> mysqldump -u bugsroot DB1 > 
> > /home/bugsroot/db1.bak
> > 
> > mysqldump: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user: 
> > 'bugsroot at localhost' (Using password: YES)
> > when trying to connect
> > 
> > 
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