Re: cron

[John Summerfied <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
exec 2>&1
> 	date
> 	cd /home
whoops=no
> 	find . -mount -print |cpio -oBc >/dev/st0 \
|| whoops=yes
if [ '${whoops}" = "yes" ] ; then
tail /catlogbu | mail -s "it's stuffed" someuser

else
echo | mail -s "it's okay" someuser
fi

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 may want to elaborate, of course.



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