[Klug-general] Cron job

[Nathan Friend]

SUSE Enterprise 10.
Oops maybe there is no MTA is running

echo "test" | /usr/bin/mail -s "subject" root

returned me to the prompt with no error, but enter 'mail' and get no mail
for root


On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Alan Buchel <
alan at communitytechnology.org.uk> wrote:

> Nathan Friend wrote:
> > Took out the ; and added -b "Some text"  same result.  Also tried with
> > no luck:
> >
> > echo "Moodle db backup failed" | /bin/mail -s "Moodle db backup failed"
> root
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Mike Evans <mike at tandem.f9.co.uk
> > <mailto:mike at tandem.f9.co.uk>> wrote:
> >
> >     oh and further to my earlier - you need a body of the mail - is that
> >     what the ; is attempting to terminate?  Not sure it will
> >
>
> which distro?
>
> Test any command first outside the script, for instance get this working
> before incorporating into script.
>
> echo "body" | /usr/bin/mail -s "subject" root
>
> make sure some sort of MTA is running on that system - sendmail is
> simple or postfix which will need a little config.
>
>
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