Re: Q: How to Set up A Daily E-Mail Reminder?

From: Heiner Steven (heiner.steven_at_nexgo.de)
Date: 04/25/05 

Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 21:31:46 +0200

qquito wrote:

> I use a Sun Microsystems UNIX machine, and I am trying to use the
> at-job to let the machine send myself an e-mail message on a daily
> basis to remind myself of something.
>
> I know some basics of shell script, but I don't know how to put the
> task of "sending an e-mail to myself (or anybody for that matter)" into
> a shell script.

If you set up your script to be run via "crontab", you can just
let the script write to standard output. "cron" automatically
sends all output generated by programs started from "crontab"
to the owner of the "crontab" - which could be you.

Heiner 

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