cron

[Paul Howarth]

roland brouwers wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I  scheduled the backup and entered the following in the crontab: 
> 35 19 * * * /usr/bin/backup.cron >>/catlogbu
> The file backup.cron contains
> 	date
> 	cd /home
> 	find . -mount -print |cpio -oBc >/dev/st0 && echo "backup
> succesfull"; date ; mt -f /dev/st0 eject
> 
> Normally I should get an email telling me something about this backup,
> but I do not.
> 
> I would like to send an email or message to some user telling about the
> result of the backup. 
> How can I do this?

You'll only get mail about a cron job if it produces any output visible 
to cron. Since you have redirected standard output into "/catlogbu", 
what output were you expecting? All you'd expect to get is the standard 
error output.

Perhaps instead of using:

 >>/catlogbu

you could use:

| tee -a /catlogbu

Paul.