On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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?
>

Hi Alan

When i run the rysnc command by hand, it runs successfully without any
issues. I can see it on stdout saying building list files........ and then
the rsync process


> Do you have any packages installed that can actually send the mail?
>

 I did not understand this question

Thanks and Regards

Kaushal


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