CRONTAB Email issue

[dbo3587]

Hi,

I am trying to execute a script from crontab and having issues with getting the script to send out an email.

This is my cron expression:
1 12 * * * /home/Testing/Client/TST.sh -l

The TST.sh script executes a bunch of tests scripts and then sends the resulting output to another script, errors.sh. The Errors.sh script parses the output and is supposed to formulate an email message and then send it out.

if i execute the TST.sh script from the commandline the scripts run as expected and sends out the email correctly. It is only when i try to run it as a cron job does the email not work. When the job runs, the scripts seem to run fine only the email ends up in /var/spool/mail/userid - instead of sending the email out. the email that gets sent to this file also contains the incorrect information.

How can i get the errors.sh to send out the email?

Here is the bit of code i use to send out the email in errors.sh after the output from TST.sh has been parsed:

# script to send simple email
# Email To ?
EMAIL="email(at)address.com"
# Email text/message
EMAILMESSAGE="/tmp/emailmessage.txt"
echo "Test script completed at: $DATE" > $EMAILMESSAGE
echo " $header " >> $EMAILMESSAGE
echo " $results " >>$EMAILMESSAGE
# send an email using /bin/mail
/bin/mail -s "$SUBJECT" "$EMAIL" < $EMAILMESSAGE

NOTE: email(at)address.com is an actually email address it wont let me use the 'at' symbol.

[evinrude]

Instead of using /bin/mail to mail out the results, let cron send them to you. All output (stdout and stderr) produced by the script will be emailed to you.

All you have to do is set the MAILTO variable in your crontab.

Update your script to something like:

# script to send simple email
# Email To ?
EMAIL="email(at)address.com"
# Email text/message
EMAILMESSAGE="/tmp/emailmessage.txt"
echo "Test script completed at: $DATE" > $EMAILMESSAGE
echo " $header " >> $EMAILMESSAGE
echo " $results " >>$EMAILMESSAGE
# send everything to stdout
cat $EMAILMESSAGE

Set the MAILTO variable in your crontab:

MAILTO=penguin@linux.com

The next time cron runs, the contents of "/tmp/emailmessage.txt" will be mailed to the address set in MAILTO.

Hope this helps.