output from unnatended bash shell scripts

output from unnatended bash shell scripts

[Mark Shadley]

Hi,

I have forgotten how to get the output from unnatended bash shell scripts
(run from crond) to show up in email. I get the emails, but they don't
have all the output of the programs. If I run the scripts manually, I get
all of the output in the emails.

I appreciate any help offered.

Thanks in advance.

Mark Shadley

Re: output from unnatended bash shell scripts

[Matt Hemingway]

Try putting  MAILTO:user@domain.com  above the entry in the cron(tab) file.

-Matt

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 12:47:44 -0800 (PST)
Mark Shadley <mark@shadley.us> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have forgotten how to get the output from unnatended bash shell scripts
> (run from crond) to show up in email. I get the emails, but they don't
> have all the output of the programs. If I run the scripts manually, I get
> all of the output in the emails.
> 
> I appreciate any help offered.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Mark Shadley
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Re: output from unnatended bash shell scripts

[Mark Shadley]

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion. I did that.

The problem is that the program output is not displayed in the emails
*only* when run from cron. I get the emails, they are mostly empty.

Thanks again.

Mark Shadley


On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Matt Hemingway wrote:
>
> Try putting  MAILTO:user@domain.com  above the entry in the cron(tab) file.
>
> -Matt
>
> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 12:47:44 -0800 (PST)
> Mark Shadley <mark@shadley.us> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have forgotten how to get the output from unnatended bash shell scripts
> > (run from crond) to show up in email. I get the emails, but they don't
> > have all the output of the programs. If I run the scripts manually, I get
> > all of the output in the emails.
> >
> > I appreciate any help offered.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Mark Shadley
> > -
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Re: output from unnatended bash shell scripts

[Jeffrey Morse]

Here is a very simple scirpt I wrote that checks for mail relaying
attempts against one of my mail servers, the output of the script is
piped to root and roots mail is directed to me via the aliases file.
The script is run daily by cron.
         
Hope this helps.

-jeff

-----start script-----

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# Run this script daily to check
# for relaying attempts made against
# mail server and mail the results
# to root

use strict;

my $log = "/var/log/maillog";
system( "egrep -i denied $log |mail -s \"mail-relaying `date`\"root");         

-----end script------

* On [03-05-2004 12:56 -0800] Mark Shadley <mark@shadley.us> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion. I did that.
> 
> The problem is that the program output is not displayed in the emails
> *only* when run from cron. I get the emails, they are mostly empty.
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> Mark Shadley
> 
> 
> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Matt Hemingway wrote:
> >
> > Try putting  MAILTO:user@domain.com  above the entry in the cron(tab) file.
> >
> > -Matt
> >
> > On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 12:47:44 -0800 (PST)
> > Mark Shadley <mark@shadley.us> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have forgotten how to get the output from unnatended bash shell scripts
> > > (run from crond) to show up in email. I get the emails, but they don't
> > > have all the output of the programs. If I run the scripts manually, I get
> > > all of the output in the emails.
> > >
> > > I appreciate any help offered.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > Mark Shadley
> > > -
> > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in
> > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
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> > >
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> >
> 

Re: output from unnatended bash shell scripts

[Joakim Ryden]

Yikes - that looks like some major overkill.  :)

How about a cron entry such as...

* * * * * /usr/bin/egrep -i denied /var/log/maillog | /usr/bin/mail -s 
"mail-relaying  `date`" root

?

--Jo

On Friday 05 March 2004 02:38 pm, Jeffrey Morse wrote:
> Here is a very simple scirpt I wrote that checks for mail relaying
> attempts against one of my mail servers, the output of the script is
> piped to root and roots mail is directed to me via the aliases file.
> The script is run daily by cron.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> -jeff
>
> -----start script-----
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
> # Run this script daily to check
> # for relaying attempts made against
> # mail server and mail the results
> # to root
>
> use strict;
>
> my $log = "/var/log/maillog";
> system( "egrep -i denied $log |mail -s \"mail-relaying `date`\"root");
>
> -----end script------

Re: output from unnatended bash shell scripts

[Matías López Bergero]

command 2>&1

This mix the error output with the standart output.

Regards!
Matías.


Mark Shadley wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have forgotten how to get the output from unnatended bash shell scripts
> (run from crond) to show up in email. I get the emails, but they don't
> have all the output of the programs. If I run the scripts manually, I get
> all of the output in the emails.
> 
> I appreciate any help offered.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Mark Shadley
> -
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