@wengi and all

I have been able to get the mini_sendmail working - for all, like me, that did not know here are the commands -
Code:
printf 'Subject: The subject of the email \r\nThis is the body text of the email' |mini_sendmail -t -ftest@test.com -ssmtp.mail.com -v email@test.com
printf 'Subject: The subject of the email \r\nThis is the body text of the email'

This just creates the email, echo won't work because we need to use the "\r\n" to make a newline and return so that the Subject: and body text are separate.

-t (Im not sure why this is needed)
-f (the "from" email *note no space -f)
-s (your isps smtp server *note no space after -s)
-v (the recipient's email * note the space after -v)

Now what I would like to do is

Write a script that runs from cron that will send me an email when an event happens.

The event would be the completion of a torrent or a dropbear logon etc.

How would I do this - I am thinking that the script should check the syslog.log ever hour and extract the log messages that are of interest and send them on .....

Can someone (wengi ) give me some help on how to get this done.

Thanks

Velcrow