On Friday 21 March 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> Hi
>
> MAILTO=kaushal@example.com
> 0 18 * * * rsync -av /var/lib/mysql kaushal@host77:/var/lib/
>
> If i put this two lines in crontab it will run correctly,My
> requirement was to create a script, this script should indicate
> success or failures and the reason for failure

crontab will only send a mail is there is anyput to stdout. What output
do you get if you run the rsync manually?

Do you have any packages installed that can actually send the mail?

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Alan McKinnon
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