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Old 09-18-2008
How to reply a message in Cron?.
Hi;
I want to schedule a backup in the cron, I know that the backup will use 2 tapes.
How do I make to see the message of tape change and to respond him?
TIA
Regards
# 2  
Old 09-18-2008
You're message is not very clear but I suppose you want to reply in an automatic way from mail you received.
In this case I will create an alias in /etc/aliases with the "|command" feature and get this mail in a script.
The "command will" be a script that grep the line you wanna see and send a return mail if that the proper mail.
Hope this help
# 3  
Old 09-18-2008
How to reply a message in Cron?.
For example, I scheduled in the Cron the backup script, then I see that I receive a mail where tells me: Please, load the next tape and press Enter to continue.....
How I make to "press" this Enter and that the backup process continued in the second tape.
# 4  
Old 09-18-2008
you can stop the mails produced by cron jobs by making MAIL_TO=""
and you can use some other prompt message instead of mail.. or use yes command
 
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