On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 01:23 -0400, A. Khattri wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> 
> > I did it, didn't have to go through perl. Just added a mail_header() to
> > my script.

> > #!/bin/sh
> > #
> > TEMPFILE="/tmp/file.$$"
> > PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT=$HOME/scripts/portfolio.sh
> >
> > $PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT --html > $TEMPFILE 2>/dev/null>&1
> > && /usr/sbin/sendmail -t < $TEMPFILE && rm $TEMPFILE
> >
> > Next, I think the above code can be enhanced by not using a tempfile.
> > perhaps a < EOF
> 
> 
> You could probably use a HERE document.
> 
> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/here-docs.html

Not sure what that is. No I-Net access currently.

Anyway, on the gentoo box, a simple 

$PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT --html 2>/dev/null>&1 | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t

works. In Fedora, the system which will be sending it out, well, I
remember doing just that but it didn't work. Will try again.

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