Josh, Josh Blacker wrote: > Being a slight newbie, I'd appreciate some direction with this! > > I have an open office file that I'm constantly updating and sharing > with a friend. Emailing it to him every so often is a chore - what I > want is a cron script to do this for me, say every evening. Any ideas? > [As he's on a mac without oo.org, ideally it would save it as a pdf > first...]
This is reasonably simple provided you have a few things set up first. To send mail from a script you either need a perl script as previously suggested, or you could install an MTA (mail transport agent) such postfix and a command line client such as mail or mutt. The MTA should be configured to use a 'smart host', i.e., all outgoing mail is sent to the mail router of your ISP. There are command line options to mail and mutt for sending a message and including a file as an attachment. Once you have that, then use 'crontab -e' to edit your crontab entry. I suggest you put the mail commands in a script and invoke the script from cron. The bit I don't know how to do is to convert an OO.org file to PDF from a script. Maybe someone else can chime in with this part. Are you both modifying this document? Would a server running CVS or SVN (subversion) be an alternative way of doing it? Maybe that's getting more complicated than it needs to be. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
