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Old 02-21-2015
I want to send an email after cron job
I am using centos 6.4.
I have a few cron jobs setup and they all work fine.
However, I would like to enhance one of the crons.
This is what I have at the moment:
Code:
nice rsync -au /home/samba/wsaler/* /home/samba/wsaler.backup/wsaler.backup18pm

date | /bin/mail -s "wsaler 3:00pm backup finished" jc@ukzone.com

This works fine but I would like to improve on it like this:
Code:
nice rsync -au /home/samba/wsaler/* /home/samba/wsaler.backup/wsaler.backup18pm

date | /bin/mail -s "wsaler the curent date and time backup finished" jc@ukzone.com

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanks,

John C
# 2  
Old 02-21-2015
Wouldn't the mail's source text contain that time stamp?
Code:
grep "^Date:" mailfile
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 12:24:09 -0600 (CST)

# 3  
Old 02-21-2015
Hi RudiC...
Thanks for your reply.
Quote:
Wouldn't the mail's source text contain that time stamp?
Yes it would. However, the emails will be listed and I want to see the date in the SUBJECT line. i.e.
Code:
date | /bin/mail -s "wsaler the curent date and time backup finished" jc@ukzone.com

This shows in the email Subject:
Quote:
wsaler the curent date and time backup finished
I want it to read
Quote:
wsaler Sat Feb 21 18:00:01 GMT 2015 backup finished
I hope this makes it clearer what I am trying to achieve.

Thanks,

John C
# 4  
Old 02-21-2015
Well understood. Still you could use grep on your mail file:
Code:
grep -E "^(From|Date|Subject):" /home/user/Mail/Local\ Folders/Inbox
Subject: New Private Message at Unix and Linux Forums
From: "UNIX.COM" <webmaster@unix.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 12:24:09 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Reply to thread 'I want to send an email after cron job'
From: "UNIX.COM" <webmaster@unix.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 14:36:25 -0600 (CST)

For your request, try
Code:
* * * * * TS=$(date); /bin/mail -s "wsaler $TS backup finished" jc@ukzone.com

Don't forget to add an e-mail body.
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# 5  
Old 02-21-2015
Many thanks RudiC. That is exactly what I wanted.

Thank you.

John C
# 6  
Old 02-23-2015
Hi RudiC...
I wander if you can help me a bit further.
What I would like to do now is to create a file with instructions in it, and include it as the BODY of the email.
At the moment I have:
Code:
date | /bin/mail -s " $TS Wholesaler TEST backup finished" jc@ukzone.com

This displays the current date and time in the body of the email.


I would like to have, e.g.
Code:
Instructions for restoration | /bin/mail -s " $TS Wholesaler TEST backup finished" jc@ukzone.com

This of course doesn't work. No body is displayed.

I would like to write the instructions in a seperate file and then include that file in the email as the body.
If this is podssible.

Any help will be appreciated.

John C
# 7  
Old 02-23-2015
Code:
$(cat foo.bar;date) | /bin/mail -s " $TS Wholesaler TEST backup finished" jc@ukzone.com
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