Scott Silva wrote:

on 11/2/2007 3:39 PM Mark Snyder spake the following:

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I am doing a md5sum to verify nightly transfer of files between servers and want to email the results to support.

Everything works fine except reading the contents of the check file into mail.

Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated.

#!/bin/bash cd /bak md5sum -b `date '+%m-%d-%y'`.tgz > `date '+%m-%d-%y'`.ver diff -s `date '+%m-%d-%y'`.md5 `date '+%m-%d-%y'`.ver > `date '+%m-%d-%y'`.chk #outfile=`date '+%m-%d-%y'`.chk #setup name of file to read into mail mail -s 'file verify' me@mymailaddr.com <<MAIL_IN ~r `date '+%m-%d-%y'`.chk

. MAIL_IN

exit

entering the same mail commands from a command prompt works.

Mark

Cron doesn't always have access to the same path and environment as a logged in user. You might have to export some environment var's in the beginning of the script.

thanks Scott

While this is true script is not reading the contents of the diff into mail when the script is executed from my normal shell. Is there another way to do this?

Garrick Staples wrote:

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 04:39:32PM -0600, Mark Snyder alleged:

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I am doing a md5sum to verify nightly transfer of files between servers and want to email the results to support.

Everything works fine except reading the contents of the check file into mail.

Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated.

#!/bin/bash cd /bak md5sum -b `date '+%m-%d-%y'`.tgz > `date '+%m-%d-%y'`.ver diff -s `date '+%m-%d-%y'`.md5 `date '+%m-%d-%y'`.ver > `date '+%m-%d-%y'`.chk #outfile=`date '+%m-%d-%y'`.chk #setup name of file to read into mail mail -s 'file verify' me@mymailaddr.com <<MAIL_IN ~r `date '+%m-%d-%y'`.chk

. MAIL_IN

exit

entering the same mail commands from a command prompt works.

First, stop running `date` over and over. Run it once at the top and set a variable.

Second, what is actually going wrong? Is there an error message?

Is this a cronjob? If so, then don't bother using 'mail'; just echo to stdout and let cron handle the mailing.

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Yes you are right about setting a variable, but this was supposed to be a quick and dirty.

I will want it to be a cronjob when its working, how can I get it to mail the output of the diff? and not just the stdout of the cronjob? The whole point of this is the get the output of the diff to someone.

On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:42:57AM -0600, Mark Snyder alleged:

Garrick Staples wrote:

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On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 04:39:32PM -0600, Mark Snyder alleged:

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I am doing a md5sum to verify nightly transfer of files between servers and want to email the results to support.

Everything works fine except reading the contents of the check file into mail.

Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated.

#!/bin/bash cd /bak md5sum -b `date '+%m-%d-%y'`.tgz > `date '+%m-%d-%y'`.ver diff -s `date '+%m-%d-%y'`.md5 `date '+%m-%d-%y'`.ver > `date '+%m-%d-%y'`.chk #outfile=`date '+%m-%d-%y'`.chk #setup name of file to read into mail mail -s 'file verify' me@mymailaddr.com <<MAIL_IN ~r `date '+%m-%d-%y'`.chk

. MAIL_IN

exit

entering the same mail commands from a command prompt works.

First, stop running `date` over and over. Run it once at the top and set a variable.

Second, what is actually going wrong? Is there an error message?

Is this a cronjob? If so, then don't bother using 'mail'; just echo to stdout and let cron handle the mailing.

Yes you are right about setting a variable, but this was supposed to be a quick and dirty.

I will want it to be a cronjob when its working, how can I get it to mail the output of the diff? and not just the stdout of the cronjob? The whole point of this is the get the output of the diff to someone.

Just cat the diff to stdout. Whatever is printed to stdout will be in the email.