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Special Forums Cybersecurity Last 24 hours of /var/mail/root/ Post 302373407 by Giordano Bruno on Friday 20th of November 2009 07:18:18 AM
Old 11-20-2009
Last 24 hours of /var/mail/root/

Hi there,

I'm using this command line to get a daily mail through crontab with the content of /var/mail/root:

mailx -s "Test My Server" mymail@mail.com </var/mail/root

and it works fine, but I'd like to get only the information updated in the last 24 hours.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions,

GB
 

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from(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   from(1)

NAME
from - Shows whom mail messages are from SYNOPSIS
from [-s sender] [user] The from command prints out the mail header lines in your mailbox file. OPTIONS
Prints headers for mail sent by sender. Specifies a mail spool directory. Use this flag if you want to examine a mailbox in a directory other than /usr/spool/mail, which is the system default. DESCRIPTION
If user is specified, then user's mailbox is examined instead of your own. EXAMPLES
To display the message headings in your mailbox, enter: from The names of the senders and the message dates are displayed. To display the message headings for mail sent by a specific user, enter: from -s dale Displays only the message headings of the messages sent from user dale. To display the message headings in a specific user's mail- box, enter: from dawn The message headings from user dawn's mailbox are displayed, provided you have read permission for dawn's mailbox. FILES
User mailbox files. SEE ALSO
Commands: biff(1), mail(1), mailx(1) from(1)
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