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

In reply to RE: RE: RE: cronjobs and perl by Jonathan
in thread cronjobs and perl by damian

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