Re: reminders via cron

2003-02-28 Thread Anthony E. Greene
Joe Polk wrote: This basically worked. Bash seemed to balk at the punctuation, which I didn't understand. But thanks! Put the string inside 'single quotes' and bash will not attempt to interpret any shell meta-characters it might contain. When you use "double quotes" bash parses the string and pr

Re: reminders via cron

2003-02-27 Thread Joe Polk
This basically worked. Bash seemed to balk at the punctuation, which I didn't understand. But thanks! <> On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 17:08, Jason P Holland wrote: > > cron entry... > > 1 2 * * * /bin/echo "Dentist Appointment at 10:30am!" | mail -s "Dentist > Visit Today!" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > how

Re: reminders via cron

2003-02-27 Thread Vidiot
>Okay, I need to send myself a reminder via email. I would think that a >script using /usr/bin/mail would work but mail seems to want too much >interaction. Any ideas? ><> Read the mail man page. You can put everything on the command line, so that interaction is not required. It is done all the

Re: reminders via cron

2003-02-27 Thread Jason P Holland
cron entry... 1 2 * * * /bin/echo "Dentist Appointment at 10:30am!" | mail -s "Dentist Visit Today!" [EMAIL PROTECTED] how is that too much interaction? you can easily script this... Jason > Okay, I need to send myself a reminder via email. I would think that a > script using /usr/bin/mail w

Re: reminders via cron

2003-02-27 Thread Gene Yoo
Joe Polk wrote: Okay, I need to send myself a reminder via email. I would think that a script using /usr/bin/mail would work but mail seems to want too much interaction. Any ideas? <> or you could use at -- <> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versio

reminders via cron

2003-02-27 Thread Joe Polk
Okay, I need to send myself a reminder via email. I would think that a script using /usr/bin/mail would work but mail seems to want too much interaction. Any ideas? <> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list