Message: 7 Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 19:03:40 +0200 From: Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Emailing a file attachment w/ cron To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <1086195820.14612.46.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Am Mi, den 02.06.2004 schrieb Paul Dubinsky um 15:00:
> I'm using FC1 and I need to email a log file with cron. I'm currently using
> send but send takes the logfile and makes it the body of the email. I want
> to send it as an attachment. I've Man'ed mail, send and post but none of
> these explicitly handle attachments.
> TIA, > Paul
cat logfile | uuencode logfile | mail -s "this is a logfile attached" recipient@xxxxxxxxxx
uuencode is part of the sharutils package.
Alexander
Thx. Another (Brian Beers) suggested essentially the same in a shell script. It worked perfectly.
Thanks, again, Paul
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