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--- wiki:talk:linux:slug [2009/01/06 15:20] – created alien
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 --- Cheers, Eric //Tue Jan  6 15:20:01 UTC 2009//
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+Nice article. Thanks for sharing.
+The cronjob that you added to the crontab is probably failing because it does not have a shell process that would create the pipe you are requesting.
+As it stands when the article was created:
+12 * * *      echo "Mail from the slug." | /opt/bin/nail -a /opt/var/log/rsnapshot -s "Rsnapshot activity log" you@inyour.lan
+However the pipe "|" is seen as just another argument to the echo command.
+Often this is overcome by putting your desired actions in a shell, and then invoking that script which contains the pipe.
+Hope this helps anyone else who passes by. <smile>
+-- Mark , Thu Feb  3 23:57:58 UTC 2011