From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rsync script
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:26:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803210926.46936.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6b16fb4c0803202352g75b851c5q93b23c5ab6c15093@mail.gmail.com>
On Friday 21 March 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> Hi
>
> MAILTO=kaushal@example.com
> 0 18 * * * rsync -av /var/lib/mysql kaushal@host77:/var/lib/
>
> If i put this two lines in crontab it will run correctly,My
> requirement was to create a script, this script should indicate
> success or failures and the reason for failure
crontab will only send a mail is there is anyput to stdout. What output
do you get if you run the rsync manually?
Do you have any packages installed that can actually send the mail?
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-21 6:52 [gentoo-user] rsync script Kaushal Shriyan
2008-03-21 7:26 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2008-03-21 7:33 ` Kaushal Shriyan
2008-03-21 8:33 ` Collin Starkweather
2008-03-21 8:59 ` Kaushal Shriyan
2008-03-21 9:38 ` Collin Starkweather
2008-03-21 12:22 ` Alan McKinnon
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2008-04-04 10:05 Kaushal Shriyan
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