On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 07:14:47PM +0100, Matt Fretwell said: > Timothy Omer wrote: > > > I apologies for my ignorance, I am still new to Linux. > > > > How would I get cron to email me only when a virus is found, I will need > > it to send the email to my external email account. > > > The -i flag only shows infected files. Cron only sends a mail if the > command generates output. If there are no infected files, no output, hence > no notification. > > clamscan --no-summary -i -r /path/to/dir > > For sending to your external account, either alias the crontab owner to > your external mail address, or put something along the lines of the > command below in cron, or in a shell script which cron runs. > > clamscan --no-summary -i -r /path/to/dir || > mail -s 'virus found' [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > man 5 crontab. It will explain the specifics of crontabs.
Setting the environment variable MAILTO in the crontab is a more effective (although less portable) way to do this. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Parts that positively cannot be | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | assembled in improper order will be. | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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