03-20-2007
scheduling tasks with cron
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
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