On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 13:00, M E Fieu wrote: > Hey, I have the crontab setting up as following, whenever the job fail it will send email to me at > david@xxxxxxxx but if the job is successful, it won't send mail. Is there any way to send mail to > me even it is a successful task ?? > > MAILTO="david@xxxxxxx" > 0 18 * * * mysqldump -u bugsroot DB1 > /home/bugsroot/db1.bak > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cron Daemon [mailto:root@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 6:00 PM > To: david > Subject: Cron <bugsroot@w2> mysqldump -u bugsroot DB1 > /home/bugsroot/db1.bak > > mysqldump: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user: 'bugsroot@localhost' (Using password: YES) > when trying to connect Cron sends any output to stdout or stderr that you haven't redirected, regardless of success or failure of the command. If you want some mail, send something to stdout. Either run a script that says what you want as a wrapper around the command, or stop redirecting stdout to a file and you'll get that by email. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
