[wplug] crontab notification

[harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu]

On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, jjlasalle wrote:

> Is it possible to have crontab email it's activities to more than one 
> user.  For example, crontab notifies me when it runs my tape backups. I'd 
> also like it to notifiy the secretary that swaps the tapes on Friday. I 
> don't want to give her a root alias because she would get all the root 
> email and this would only confuse things.

one thing you could consider. if you are using a script to run your backup
you could include a line at the end of the script that mails the return
status of the backup to the user. i think you could use the 'mail' command
to do this.

-- 
john