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From: Mike Edenfield <kutulu@××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] crontab entry
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:27:35
Message-Id: 47E7BAD1.3070307@kutulu.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] crontab entry by Kaushal Shriyan
1 Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
2 > Hi I have the following entry in the crontab
3 >
4 > MAILTO=systems@×××××××.com
5 > 0 18 * * * /home/kaushal/rsync_mysql.sh
6 >
7 > I want my subject line to be "hostxx:yyDB refresh daily"
8 >
9 > is there a way to do it
10 >
11 > Thanks and Regards
12 >
13 > Kaushal
14 >
15
16 The easiest way is to write a wrapper script; I have a few of them that
17 do something like:
18
19
20 (
21 echo "From: songbird.jungle <root@××××××××.jungle>"
22 echo "To: Michael Edenfield <kutulu@××××××.org>"
23 echo "Subject: Portage Update Report"
24 echo ""
25
26 # do stuff here.
27
28 ) | sendmail kutulu@××××××.org
29
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