[ydl-gen] Sending mail from the command line

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

Why not route root's main to yourself:

As root:

(1) open /etc/aliases in your favorite editor

(2) add/edit the following lines at the bottom of the file

        # Person who should get root's mail
        root:           your-user-name
        
(3) run the command

   newaliases

(4) test
send root some email

-Joseph

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On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 09:35 -0400, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> Hello all, I've been trying to figure out how to send an e-mail using
> a tcsh script. I've created a script to monitor my server's IP and
> update the DNS server when it changes (I'm on dynamic IP).
> 
> I want to send myself an e-mail whenever it has to update the DNS
> server (at present it sends root an e-mail but I don't check my root
> e-mail that frequently).
> 
> I've been trying to use mail to send an e-mail but cannot automate the process:
> 
> mail -s My\ subject my.email at nowhere.com
> 
> At first I tried piping a file into the command but haven't got that
> to work (composing the e-mail requires one to press ^D to terminate
> the e-mail followed by an enter to accept no cc:).
> 
> Any ideas? Is there another mechanism I should be using to email stuff
> automagically? Is there an interface to send mail I should be using?
> 
> Thanks, Eric.
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