==== Discussion page for the article "a backup server using NSLU2, unslung and rsnapshot" ==== If you have any feedback, comments or suggestions about my article, please leave them here.\\ --- Cheers, Eric //Tue Jan 6 15:20:01 UTC 2009// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 0 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. -- Mark , Thu Feb 3 23:57:58 UTC 2011