Cron job
 

Hello forum,

I'm new to linux.

I'm running redhat 7.1 and webmin.

My question is concerning cron.

I would like to setup a cron job in redhat 7.1 or webmin to email me results from a logfile.

could someone point me in the right direction.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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what do you mean 'results fom a logfile'? You just mean to email you a log file every so often..?

Well, that's a cron thing, webmin is irrelevant.

I think all you should need to do is to actually create a cron job file which simply 'cat's (or less or more or whatever) teh log file as and when you want it to. I *think* that simply catting it will email it to the postmaster defined in the /etc/crontab file as MAILTO=

Putting the script file into one of the /etc/cron.xxxx directories (or creating your own new one) is the easiest way to get a cron job going