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Old July 18th, 2005, 10:10 AM
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crontab?
Should'nt the below execute once every minute or do I have my syntax wrong??

* * * * * mail -s "test" your.name@company.com
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Old July 18th, 2005, 10:46 AM
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Is this in the global /etc/crontab or in a user crontab?
For the global one, you need to add the user name in column 6.

Anyways, you should also supply the full path to "mail" if it doesn't work.

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Old July 18th, 2005, 11:29 AM
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How should it look if it was global with user 445342?? Thanks for the help.
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How should it look if it was global with user 445342?? Thanks for the help.
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User "445342" looks odd to me. Aren't unix UIDs restricted to 0..65535? Anyways, if you want to run a cron script from the global crontab for this user, it would look like this:

* * * * * 445342 mail -s "test" your.name@company.com

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