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.
