On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 16:05 +0200, 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? > > > Roland Brouwers > Email roland@xxxxxx > > > > I think the redirection to /catlogbu stops the email, since there is nothing output on stdout. I would expect an email should there be any errors. Bob...
