RE: RE: cronjobs and perl

hi jonathan, u see my script's purpose is to update the webpage automatically. it goes like this:

30 * * * * /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/admin/update.pl --exclusives
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is there a way i can send an e-mail to myself to check if the script successfully ran? i know i am not a good sysadmin forgive me. thanks

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RE: RE: RE: cronjobs and perl by Zarathustra (Beadle) on Sep 19, 2000 at 10:41 UTC
In your crontab: `MAIL=jonathan` [download] ... or whatever local account name you have on that box.	[reply] [d/l]
RE: RE: RE: cronjobs and perl by Jonathan (Curate) on Sep 19, 2000 at 15:32 UTC
Forgive me if I'm being more stupid than usual today and have misunderstood. Do you want your script to E-mail you? If so, (watch the purists flame me ;-) I often just use the Unix mail or mailx command within backticks - quick and dirty but does the job. Though using Mail::Sendmail is a nice Perl only solution. However, if you want the cron line to mail you then I think it's possible but messy but IMHO there is no need for this. Don't worry about cron you can trust it. BTW if you are using a commercial ?nix then it is supported by the OS vendor. I've used it for ten years on most ?nix flavours and the only problems were of my own devising	[reply]