scripting question

jan gestre freebsd.ph at gmail.com
Tue Oct 3 17:36:30 PDT 2006


On 10/3/06, Ivan Levchenko <levchenko.i at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Remove the word root from the crontab entry. The user should be
> specified only in the system crontab.


thanks ivan,  but the solution i made was i put in the
/usr/local/etc/periodic/daily directory, it is now working :D


On 10/3/06, jan gestre <freebsd.ph at gmail.com> wrote:
> > i made a script and put on root's crontab, however it's not doing or
> showing
> > the output that is forwarded to my email address correctly therefore i'm
> not
> > sure if it is working or not. below is what the script look like:
> >
> > #----------------
> > # cvsrun - Weekly CVSup Run
> >
> > echo "Subject: `hostname` weekly cvsup run"
> > /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile
> > echo ""
> > /usr/local/bin/portmanager -s | grep OLD
> > echo ""
> > echo "cvsrun done."
> >
> > #----------------
> >
> > i would like the output of this command
> >
> > /usr/local/bin/portmanager -s | grep OLD
> >
> > to show in my mail where i forwarded it. below is the cronjob.
> >
> > 30 8 * * * root /usr/local/bin/cvsrun | mail -s "Daily cvsup run and
> > portmanager" user1
> >
> > can someone help me to correct this script, to show the output that i
> want.
> >
> > TIA
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>
> --
> Best Regards,
>
> Ivan Levchenko
> levchenko.i at gmail.com
>


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