cron

[Bob Chiodini]

On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 16:05 +0200, roland brouwers wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I  scheduled the backup and entered the following in the crontab: 
> 35 19 * * * /usr/bin/backup.cron >>/catlogbu
> The file backup.cron contains
> 	date
> 	cd /home
> 	find . -mount -print |cpio -oBc >/dev/st0 && echo "backup
> succesfull"; date ; mt -f /dev/st0 eject
> 
> Normally I should get an email telling me something about this backup,
> but I do not.
> 
> I would like to send an email or message to some user telling about the
> result of the backup. 
> How can I do this?
> 
> 
> Roland Brouwers
> Email roland at cat.be
>  
> 
> 
> 


I think the redirection to /catlogbu stops the email, since there is
nothing output on stdout.  I would expect an email should there be any
errors.

Bob...