Are you using Mailx? I thought mailx was intended for use within scripts. hth Wil http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man1/mailx.1.asp -----Original Message----- From: Net Llama! [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sat 9/21/2002 2:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: how to send mail without human intervention? grrr...i hate it when i do this. ok, i figured out a workaround (although not what i'd call ideal). I can redirect the contents of a file into that mail command like so: mail -n -s "another test of mail" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /tmp/whatever i just wish there was a way to just specify the body somehow. oh well. Net Llama! wrote: > I'm writing a bash script where I need to send email out depending on > certain conditions within the script. > > I'm thought that I could use 'mail' to do the job, but it seems to > require human intervention to send the message out. I'm trying: > mail -n -s "another test of mail" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > yet it keeps insisting on having me type something for the body, and > then hit Ctrl-D or a . at the end in order to send it. Looking at the > man page for mail there doesn't seem to be any option that lets me set > the body message from the command itself. Am i missing something > obvious, or is there a better tool for the job? thanks! > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 11:50pm up 46 days, 8:10, 5 users, load average: 0.10, 0.06, 0.01 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
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