Email Attachment not working with crontab

rruchika · 03-26-2012, 12:39 AM

I am using below command to send email with attachment

uuencode mount.html mount.html| mailx -s 'Mountpoint Report' abc@xyz.com

It's working fine if i am executing thru command line but with cronjob it's not working. I mean it's sending email but without attachment..

Any clues??

acid_kewpie · 03-26-2012, 02:49 AM

showing us the full crontab entry would be a start. Cron is usually a good place to always use absolute paths to binaries, to remove any presumptions about environmental path values etc. Also loosks like it *might* be a good candidate to just drop a standard script file into a directory like /etc/cron.daily rather than directly messing with crontab lines.

rruchika · 03-26-2012, 03:27 AM

00 08 * * * sh /appl/mediation/comptel/convmed/utils/envteam/email1.sh >/appl/mediation/comptel/convmed/utils/envteam/email1.log

catkin · 03-26-2012, 06:14 AM

Possibly because the script doesn't have a full path to uuencode and PATH does not include the directory it is in when run under cron.

The easiest solution might be to set-and-export the PATH that your script relies on in the script itself.

rruchika · 03-26-2012, 06:18 AM

Its working now...

I just added the absolute path of mount.html

uuencode <absolute path >mount.html mount.html| mailx -s 'Mountpoint Report' abc@xyz.com

Thanks all for ur suggestions..