I tested with my mail and it works fine. I get 'grep' from Charles site. You can copy this grep to /bin/grep thus replacing the old grep and try again. If you need more info, let me know. ----- Original Message ----- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 11:47:52 +0100 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Julian Church <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Leaf-user] Mail command bother / how to replace /bin/grep? > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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 > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.ljchurch.co.uk _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
