I do have full control over my system. I want to use the mail command so that the script will be more portable. This script will run on an OS X system that has PostFix running on it, but if I were later to run it on Linux with another email server, then the script would still send out emails without needing to change things around. I also didn't want to have to install other software for the same reason. As it turns out, my script works. Just not on my laptop that I created it on. Don't know why. I have just ran upgrades for 2 years, and this is another sign that I need to do a clean install. Here is the script that I am using if anyone has forgot. #! /bin/bash echo "Email message body here." | /usr/bin/mail -s "Email subject" mtuller at ce.anoka.k12.mn.u Thanks all for the help. Mike On 10/23/04 1:35 PM, "nate at refried.org" <nate at refried.org> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 10:35:20AM -0500, Mike Miller wrote: >> On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 nate at refried.org wrote: >>> If you run this from cron, any output is usually sent in a mail to the >>> user that owns the cron job. If you're running this as root, just >>> forward the mail from root to your email address. >> >> That applies to stdout and stderr, but if there is no such output, no mail >> is sent. If the cron job is a script that sends an e-mail message, it >> should send that message to the adressee, not to the owner of the cron >> job. > > It sounded to me like Mike had full control over the system he was > running backups on. If he changed the script to output a message the > email part would be taken care of for him. > > If he wants the mail to go somewhere else than the account running the > cron job, there are many ways to redirect the cron email to the correct > address. > > I just wanted to make it clear there might be other ways to get the end > result he wants. > > Nate > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list