Mailing a file on a regular basis

Sn7 · 07-19-2004, 05:55 AM

Hi

I need to execute a program which generates file say file.log, I need to execute this process every friday and mail this file off to a mail address. How can I set this up... I don't know cron/sendmail at all :-(

Can anyone please help me

Thanks

david_ross · 07-19-2004, 07:24 AM

You could set up a script like:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

echo `date` Mailing log
cat /path/to/file.log | mail user@host.com -s "My log file"

Make it executable, then create a cron job like:
* 22 * * * /path/to/script > /var/log/script.log 2>&1

Sn7 · 07-19-2004, 07:47 AM

Thanks, How does cron work, if I want to let it do this on friday night at 22H00 how do I do it and what file do I edit?

Sn7 · 07-19-2004, 08:13 AM

Just another thing, when I reiceve the mail, it's in text - can't I make it so that it's an attachment?

Thanks

david_ross · 07-19-2004, 08:37 AM

If you wan't an attachment then you will probably want to use perl and the MIME::Lite module.

The 5 fields at the start of the crontab entry specify when the job is run. For a full explanation see:
man crontab