Hi there,

complete newbie to cron jobs but some experience with Telnet commands, configuration of scripts etc etc..

I want to do the following, which I assume can/should be done with a cronjob.

We want to setup a feedback form and the output will be stored in a text file - no big deal so far and no help needed.

Problem 1:
Now I'd like to send this tab delimited text file at one certain time of every day to two email recipients as an attachment. Anywhere where I could find help on this or hints ..are highly appreciated. Our server can handle cron jobs ..so that is no problem.

Problem 2:
The optimum scenario would be that instead of having an accumulating txt file which would cause old entries sent again and again to only send new form input that has come in in the 24 hour period after the last sending of the mail ...

Any ideas or hints on how to get this done ?

Thx in advance

Axel

Never done this, but with text files you should look at mail(1).
It supports input from std in, and has escape sequences with which
you can add commands to the input.

1.)Try createing a here file composed of the file you want to send, with command that insert subject, recipients, etc.

2.)At the time of sending archive the old file by renaming it, maybe add a date string. Then at the next run only the recent (since last run) inputs will be used, then archive this file too. Don't know if thats possible for you're setup.
Another possibility would be to count the lines contained in the file at the time of sending using wc(1), then count the number of lines at the next run, calculate the difference and use tail(1) to extract the lines since last send.

Thx guys ... will give it a try ....