On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 09:15:46PM +0100, Timothy Omer said: > Thank you all for your help, MAILTO does seem to work. I will try the > suggestion above as I can add my own subject.
Good. This is the simplest, unless you are managing a farm of multiple platforms and need a script that works on all of them. > Not sure what 2>&1 does, is there any way I can create an error to test > this? (Obviously I can not disconnect the internet to create an update > error, as I would not receive the email :-) ) freshclam --quiet suppresses all of the informational messages that go to stdout. The shell construct 2>&1 redirects stderr into stdout, so that any remaining output from freshclam (in this case, what would normally be the stderr stream, generated by errors or warnings) will go throught the pipe into the mail command. As has been previously noted, though, the '| mail .. ' construct will generate an empty email on every successful run, and an email with content if there is an error. That is not something I would want, but tastes vary. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Conversation, n.: A vocal competition | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | in which the one who is catching his | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | breath is called the listener. | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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