I've been having some bother with the mail command on my Eigerstein
LRP. Checking up on older posts, I don't think I've fallen into the usual
pitfalls.
Basically this command works perfectly
# mail -s "Daily LRP log" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /var/log/messages.0
but
# mail -s "Daily LRP log" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /var/log/syslog.0
just gives me the message
error: Unknown response.
and then waits until I press ctrl+C before returning me to the command prompt.
It was suggested on the LRP list (just as it was falling apart) that my
version of /bin/grep (POSIXness v0.20 19990529) might have a bug that
causes it to choke on the contents of syslog.0, so I should try a newer
version. So I took a copy of the file (POSIXness v0.50 20000812) from an
LRP 2.9.8 disk image I had, and tried to use it as a direct replacement for
the file on my current system. That didn't seem to work though - lots of
commands stopped working altogether, so I suppose this must be the wrong
way to go about this.
Can anyone give me a bit of advice? Will replacing grep fix the mail
command? If so, how do I go about replacing grep?
cheers
Julian Church
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