Cron Job Email Subject

[WebStuck]

I have the following example cron job set up through cpanel:

/path_to_script/script.cgi

When the cron job finishes running, I get an email with the output from the script. The email's subject line is, "/path_to_script/script.cgi". I was wondering if there was something I could put in the cron job to specify an email subject line.

Thanks!
Ben

 

[Chacalinc]

how do you send the email?

 

[WebStuck]

I didn't put anything in the cron job to tell it to send me an email. It just automatically sends me an email when the cron job is done running.

 

[SamBones]

If you don't redirect the output from the program or script being run, cron will email the output to you. I don't know if there's a way to change the subject that cron uses.

You can just redirect the output and maybe mail it yourself with another script.

You can save the output to a log file. This will mean you won't get an email with the output. Change your crontab entry to something like this...

0 12 * * * /path-to/script.sh > /path-to/script.log 2>&1

You won't get it mailed, but it will be in a log file for you to check.

Hope this helps.

 

[SamBones]

Or if you wanted to still get the output mailed, I guess you could do this in your crontab...

0 12 * * * /path_to_script/script.cgi 2>&1 | mailx -s "Subject" userid@hostname

You may need to add path information in front of the [tt]mailx[/tt].

Hope this helps.