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Old 06-30-2003
Question Output from tail to a user
Hi all

I've read through a few of these lists but can't find a right combination of answers (I can create VPN's but can't send an email!)

Ok - I'm using taper as backup software which generates a log file called taper_log I want the last eight lines of this log file to be sent to a specified user. The system is using postfix and fetchmail.

The backup job is run as a cron job so I'd want to send the mail from a cron job so I can set the time after the job has finished.

I can get the required lines with tail and...
#tail -8 taper_log >> results.log

to create a file called results.log

How can I sned that file to one of the users? Or can I redirect output directly from tail to an email?

Regards

Ifan
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Old 06-30-2003
You can try the following in the cron job (as long as the cron job isn't sending it's output to taper.log):

mailx -s"taper log" youruser@yourcompany < `tail -8 /yourdir/taper.log`

Edited: Perderabo is correct - I don't know what I was thinking!
Last edited by RTM; 06-30-2003 at 02:05 PM..
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Old 06-30-2003
I'm sure RTM means:

tail -8 /yourdir/taper.log | mailx -s"taper log" youruser@yourcompany
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Old 06-30-2003
Thanks chaps - that cured it - I was getting my >> and << all messed up.
 
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