[rescue] Re: Speaking of backups, scripting division

[Robert Novak]

On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Mike F wrote:

> I can confirm this (*/x) works under OpenBSD and FreeBSD, but
> I haven't been able to make it work under Solaris 9. 

If you're brave enough to put vixie cron in, you can probably get it to
work. The Solaris cron is not vixie cron, so it doesn't use the revised
syntax options.

> While I'm on the same subject (sort of) does Solaris have a way to
> non-interactively specify the subject of a mail message, like: `mail
> -s "This is the subject" recipient` ? 

use 'mailx' instead of 'mail' and it will take the '-s' option.

--Rob

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