Hello all,

We are trying to get a cron job to "find" spam scripts from the "/home" directory to search all users. The only way we can get it to work is to setup a different cron for each user.

I am thinking it is a permissions or owner issue. I've searched for an answer to this for hours now with no luck...

Thanks for any help!
v-rod

Fixed it!

Changed "find" to "/usr/bin/find"...

v-rod

Okay, we have that working now. However, how do we get the following shell script to search for multiple files and only send one email?

/usr/bin/find /home2 -type f -name "$file" | mail email@address.com

Thank you for your time!

v-rod

Originally posted by v-rod
Okay, we have that working now. However, how do we get the following shell script to search for multiple files and only send one email?

/usr/bin/find /home2 -type f -name "$file" | mail email@address.com

Thank you for your time!

v-rod


Well, your command line above will send you exactly one email. But I think you left out the rest of your scripts, I have no idea how to fix it without the rest of your script.

Hi,

That's it...

I have like six lines just like that to search for six different files. I get six blank emails twice a day(if I'm lucky). Just would like to know how to make it only send an email when a file is found or make one line search for multiple files.

Thanks for your time!

v-rod

You can redirect and append all your "searching" using >>

For example:

/usr/bin/find /home2 -type f -name "$file1" > hunting.txt
/usr/bin/find /home2 -type f -name "$file2" >> hunting.txt
...

and at the end

mail email@address.com < hunting.txt

Hope this helps :)

You're probably getting blank emails because you don't have "-print" at the end of your find command.

Originally posted by v-rod
Hi,

That's it...

I have like six lines just like that to search for six different files. I get six blank emails twice a day(if I'm lucky). Just would like to know how to make it only send an email when a file is found or make one line search for multiple files.

Thanks for your time!

v-rod

Got it... maybe this will work:


#!/bin/sh

(
find -type f -name file1
find -type f -name file2
.....
) | mail your@email.address