How to email

[LowSky]

Maybe someone can help me with this.

I want my PC to email the results of running a command like lsusb every 24 hours. How would I go setting this up?

TIA

[Bachstelze]

command | mail -s Subject foo@bar.org

Put that in a cron job, either directly or in a shell script if you want to so something more complex.

[LowSky]

Thanks Bachstelze I'm going to try that out

[Bachstelze]

Thanks Bachstelze I'm going to try that out

Your system must be properly configured to send email, though. If you want a quick and easy way, use ssmtp and configure it to use the SMTP server of your ISP.

[LowSky]

Very cool! I got it to work! Thanks for tips

Installed ssmtp, then created a simple cron job that looks like this


MAILTO=xxxxxxx@gmail.com
00 10 * * * mythtv-status


Now I get an email that will tell me what is being recorded for the day.