Re: [gentoo-user] crontab entry

[Collin Starkweather]

Quoting Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan@×××××.com>:

> so according to your suggestion where does this line fits "cat
> /tmp/file|mailx -s "my subject" systems@×××××××.com" <systems@×××××××.com>
> in my above bash script

Dirk gave a lovely one-liner, but my guess is you'll get sick of  
having to actually check the body of the e-mail to know whether there  
is a problem, so you could also put the system call to mailx in the  
if-then-else-fi and indicate in the subject line whether it is a  
success or failure.

Also, you want to cut out the echo or else cron will send an e-mail  
(remember cron sends an e-mail if there's any output from the  
command), which is redundant now that you're calling mailx.

Finally, note that you left a '>' out of your rsync call.  It's fixed below.

   #!/bin/bash
   #rsync mysql database shell script
   #author kaushal
   #created on 21/03/2008

   TIMESTAMP=`date +%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S:%N`

   if rsync -av /var/lib/mysql kaushal@host77:/var/lib/ \
              > /tmp/rsync-${TIMESTAMP}.log 2>&1
   then
     cat /tmp/rsync-${TIMESTAMP}.log | \
       mailx -s "Success: hostxx:yyDB refresh daily" <systems@×××××××.com>
   else
     cat /tmp/rsync-${TIMESTAMP}.log | \
       mailx -s "Error: hostxx:yyDB refresh daily" <systems@×××××××.com>
   fi

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

-Collin

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