Julian Church, 2001-06-19 11:47 +0100
>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?
Julian,
Take a look at this page below from Charles. You want to get "grep",
"mailonerr", and moe.config. I hope this helps.
http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/cstein/Packages/Utilities.htm
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