> Problem description: > I want the Dachstein router to send mails, e.g ip-address after > reboot. > ipmail should do it, but I get an error "error parsing sender > address"
What's ipmail? Exactly where did this error show up? > I think that $user in POSIXness.mail is empty until a user is logged > in. Therefor we get a empty sender address. > > As a workaround I added a new line to POSIXness.mail after > user=${USER:-$LOGNAME} > I inserted > user=${USER:-root} That second line should be user=${user:-root} > to replace the empty user with a valid name/sender. > > Four questions: > 1) Is my analysis wrong? Whatelse could be the problem? ??? > 2) If I'm correct, is there a better approach to fix this? ??? > 3) If not, will this workaround raise other problems? With the change above, it shouldn't... > 4) If not, will Charles add that to POSIXness.mail? Probably...it shouldn't hurt anything. BTW: In what context are you running the mail command, with neither USER or LOGNAME defined? I'm presuming this is running in an init script? _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel