On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 nate at refried.org wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 04:50:28PM -0500, Mike Tuller wrote: >> I have created a script to backup files on a system, and want to set it so >> that when the backup is completed it will send an email to me. That way I > > If you run this from cron, any output is usually sent in a mail to the > user that owns the cron job. If you're running this as root, just > forward the mail from root to your email address. That applies to stdout and stderr, but if there is no such output, no mail is sent. If the cron job is a script that sends an e-mail message, it should send that message to the adressee, not to the owner of the cron job. Mike _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list