hello there,

i'm learning about task scheduling with cron and all seems hyper exciting, yeppie. But there is a prob:

assume i have a script that needed to be executed at 7am everyday. I could do:

vi mycron
00 7 * * * echo hi mother, i wanna be a script daddy.
:wq

crontab mycron

how can i have the shell send the results to my neighbor's email address at

unixbuddy@hello.com?.

i added mailto: unixbuddy@hello.com in my script but didnt work.

Thanks all very much,
alikun

matrix thanks a lot, that was very kind of you:
i tried it as follows but had an error "message bad minute" in my file after submitting for crontab. This is what i did:

vi mycron
00 7 * * * echo hi mother, i wanna be a script daddy.
echo hello | mail -s hello again unixbuddy@hello.com
:wq

crontab mycron

what does "contents" refer to? should hello again be within quotes?. couldn't find the mistake.

Thanks a lot,
alikun

it should be of the following form,

by contents, I meant the message that you are trying it send it via mail.


Posted above should work, paste it and save in the cron file

Matrix - thanks a lot, it did work. See now i'm a cron expert :-)