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# 1  
Old 08-21-2007
sendmail problem

Hi everyone...
i'm trying to send mail with attachment using /usr/sbin/sendmail
and from some reason it's not working for me only from one computer.

the command i'm using is:
cat /etc/fstab | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t RECIPIENT@MAIL.COM

am i doing something wrong?

p.s. the OS is RedHat.
# 2  
Old 08-21-2007
Mail the contents of a file to any email address from shell
############################################################
cat /etc/fstab | mail -s "The FSTAB enrties" me@mydomain.tld




Here -s "The FSTAB enrties" = subject of the email
me@mydomain.tld = recipient
# 3  
Old 08-21-2007
yeah i know that but i need the as an attachment...
and from some reason it sends me a blank mail...
# 4  
Old 08-21-2007
i have runned it again with strace and i get an error with the pipe:

Code:
[engbatch@engapp bin]$ strace cat /etc/fstab | sendmail -t elirazas
-bash: sendmail: command not found
execve("/bin/cat", ["cat", "/etc/fstab"], [/* 29 vars */]) = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="engapp", ...}) = 0
brk(0)                                  = 0x505000
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2a9566c000
open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY)    = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/OracleTools/10.2.0.1/lib/tls/x86_64/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/OracleTools/10.2.0.1/lib/tls/x86_64", 0x7fbfffa880) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/OracleTools/10.2.0.1/lib/tls/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/OracleTools/10.2.0.1/lib/tls", 0x7fbfffa880) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/OracleTools/10.2.0.1/lib/x86_64/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/OracleTools/10.2.0.1/lib/x86_64", 0x7fbfffa880) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/OracleTools/10.2.0.1/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/OracleTools/10.2.0.1/lib", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=8192, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/lib/tls/x86_64/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/usr/lib/tls/x86_64", 0x7fbfffa880) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/tls/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/usr/lib/tls", 0x7fbfffa880)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/x86_64/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/usr/lib/x86_64", 0x7fbfffa880)   = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)    = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/usr/lib", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=32768, ...}) = 0
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)      = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=105214, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 105214, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x2a9566d000
close(3)                                = 0
open("/lib64/tls/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)  = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\2\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0@\322\1\0"..., 640) = 640
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1669064, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 2375528, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x2a95687000
mprotect(0x2a957c2000, 1085288, PROT_NONE) = 0
mmap(0x2a958c2000, 20480, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x13b000) = 0x2a958c2000
mmap(0x2a958c7000, 16232, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2a958c7000
close(3)                                = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2a958cb000
arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_FS, 0x2a958cb4c0)   = 0
munmap(0x2a9566d000, 105214)            = 0
brk(0)                                  = 0x505000
brk(0x526000)                           = 0x526000
brk(0)                                  = 0x526000
open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=32148976, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 32148976, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x2a958cc000
close(3)                                = 0
fstat(1, {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
open("/etc/fstab", O_RDONLY)            = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=10125, ...}) = 0
read(3, "/dev/sda1                 /     "..., 4096) = 4096
write(1, "/dev/sda1                 /     "..., 4096) = -1 EPIPE (Broken pipe)
--- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGPIPE +++

any1 have an idea?!
# 5  
Old 08-21-2007
Hello,


Strange that it sends out a blank email.. I tested... the contents of fstab are added to the body of the email.

Anyways.. can you try this and see if it helps.



1)

root@server[/etc]# echo "123456" > /tmp/testmail ; cd /etc ; zip fstab fstab ; mutt -s "Test mail111111" -a fstab.zip me@mymail.tld < /tmp/testmail




/tmp/testmail = 123456 ( body of email )



2)
Another is : uuencode /etc/fstab /etc/fstab | mail -s "FSTAB" me@mydomain.tld
# 6  
Old 08-21-2007
The second one worked for me!!!
thanx!
# 7  
Old 08-21-2007
welcome Smilie
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