On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 13:06:17 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> dijo:
>On Mon, 27 Jan 2020, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> So just now I made a script so I could have more than one line, and >> having done so I ran it from the terminal. The script ended with: >> >> mail: cannot send message: Process exited with a non-zero status >Did you look in /var/log/ to see if that error shows up in a file? Yes, found no files about rsync or mail. Looked in syslog, but no messages about rsync or mail, either. One thing that may be hanging up the mail is that if I just do 'mail some...@somedomain.com' from the command line it immediately pops up a line expecting me to add a Cc. I scoured the mail and mailutils man pages and found no way to tell it to shut up and just send the mail. I also don't know what to add for the Cc line; it hangs the mail until I give it what it wants, so I have to kill mail. Here is the current incarnation of my script: #!/bin/bash MAILTO=some...@gmx.com TS=`date` rsync -av --delete /home/jjj/ /media/jjj/Data/JJJ mail -s "$TS Home Backup Done Exit Status $?" $MAILTO This now ends with the Cc line, and hangs waiting for input. And if I just do 'echo $TS Home Backup Done Exit Status $?' it displays the information that I want, so the -s line above should work, if I can just get it to send the mail. Of course, I don't know what would happen to the e-mail if the exit status is other than 0, assuming I can finally get it to work. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
