UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

This line is a syntax error:
This variable is not defined:

Code:

echo From: "$machineName" >> yy

Are you sure that that you are executing the same script from cron as the one from the command prompt? The script as posted will give syntax errors. Any errors from the cron version will be in the unix mailbox of the user who owns the cron.

-----Post Update-----

After a bit of checking, many of the lines you are giving to "sendmail" are not needed. The workfiles are also not needed. The echo "." line is to terminate the input to sendmail - some systems need it.
The script can be boiled down to:

Code:

echo "Sending email..."
RECIPIENTS="testadmin@info.com"
(
echo "To: ${RECIPIENTS}" 
echo "From: `uname -n`" 
echo "Subject: Log Report Generated on `date +%d-%m-%Y`" 
echo ""
echo "Log report"
echo ""
ls -1tr /home/testadmin/testdir/test.log* 2>/dev/null | tail -1
echo "."
) | /usr/lib/sendmail "${RECIPIENTS}"

echo "Done!"