Re: Stupid scripting question -- FAQ-ish

2003-01-20 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Tim Wunder wrote: % On Monday 20 January 2003 1:21 pm, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: % > On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: % > > On 1/20/2003 12:38 PM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: % > > > A non-sendmail specific version: % > > > mail -s "GNUCash upda

Re: Stupid scripting question -- FAQ-ish

2003-01-20 Thread James Bonnet
echo $MSG | mail -s "Mailtest" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -jim I tried: export MSG="Some Message" mail -s "Mail Test" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /bin/echo $MSG And I get the contents of the file /bin/echo :-( I also tried mail -s "Mail Test" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < $MSG And bash tells me "$MSG: ambiguous redi

Re: Stupid scripting question -- FAQ-ish

2003-01-20 Thread Tim Wunder
On Monday 20 January 2003 1:21 pm, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: > > On 1/20/2003 12:38 PM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: > > > A non-sendmail specific version: > > > mail -s "GNUCash update" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < "message f00" > > > > >

Re: Stupid scripting question -- FAQ-ish

2003-01-20 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: > On 1/20/2003 12:38 PM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: > > A non-sendmail specific version: > > mail -s "GNUCash update" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < "message f00" > > > > > > > > > I was trying this, but it would fail on me. I just tried again and bash > g

Re: Stupid scripting question -- FAQ-ish

2003-01-20 Thread Tim Wunder
On 1/20/2003 12:38 PM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: A non-sendmail specific version: mail -s "GNUCash update" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < "message f00" I was trying this, but it would fail on me. I just tried again and bash gives me this error: bash: message f00: No such file or directo

Re: Stupid scripting question -- FAQ-ish

2003-01-20 Thread Net Llama!
A non-sendmail specific version: mail -s "GNUCash update" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < "message f00" On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: > On 1/20/2003 11:28 AM, someone claiming to be Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:09:52 -0500 > > Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >

Re: Stupid scripting question -- FAQ-ish

2003-01-20 Thread stayler
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:09:52 -0500, Tim Wunder wrote: >So, essentially, my question is: How do I send a mail message from the >command line without requiring additional user input? smtpclient will do just that. I have it send my portsentry/logsentry reports every 15min. Works great for just th

Re: Stupid scripting question -- FAQ-ish

2003-01-20 Thread Tim Wunder
On 1/20/2003 11:28 AM, someone claiming to be Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:09:52 -0500 Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have a rudimentary script that checks out and compiles the latest GNUCash from CVS. I'd like to have it send me an e-mail when it completes tel

Re: Stupid scripting question -- FAQ-ish

2003-01-20 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:09:52 -0500 Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I have a rudimentary script that checks out and compiles the latest > GNUCash from CVS. I'd like to have it send me an e-mail when it > completes telling me that the new GnuCash is ready for installation, or > that

Stupid scripting question -- FAQ-ish

2003-01-20 Thread Tim Wunder
Hi, I have a rudimentary script that checks out and compiles the latest GNUCash from CVS. I'd like to have it send me an e-mail when it completes telling me that the new GnuCash is ready for installation, or that the update failed. So, essentially, my question is: How do I send a mail message f