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Old 07-06-2015, 08:24 PM   #1
lq_win
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Question how to send email after the cron job ran completely

Hello All,

I have a cron job below:

#every 30 minutes
15,30,45,59 7-21 * * * sh /home/guest/Rsync/doRsync

how to send email after the it ran completely? (my mail server is not in the same box).

please help

thank a lot in advance.

Regards
Win
 
Old 07-06-2015, 08:32 PM   #2
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That looks more like every 15 minutes

Why not put something like mail -s "$(date): doRsync done" Win@mailserver.my.domain.org in the shell script?
 
  


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