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[engrolsonjr]

Hi. Im hoping that someone could help me. My issue is very simple, I just can find a link to provide me with a good walkthrough. I am a complete newbie to Linux and CRON but I can follow instructions very well.

What i need to do is just send an email to a mailbox every hour. that's it. I want to send a test email every hour to my mail box xxx@yahoo.com from my fedora server(which is already installed). Thanks a bunch ahead.

[redhead]

@hourly echo "sending you mail " | mail -s "mail from cron" xxx@yahoo.com
or
0 * * * * echo "sending you mail " | mail -s "mail from cron" xxx@yahoo.com

[engrolsonjr]

Thank you redhead for the response. Where should i put these?

@hourly echo "sending you mail " | mail -s "mail from cron" xxx@yahoo.com ?
0 * * * * echo "sending you mail " | mail -s "mail from cron" xxx@yahoo.com ?

Im learning Linux slowly but surely..

[engrolsonjr]

nvm. i got it! Thank you very much for your help! I will forever be grateful at this site!