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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sending email from a unix program Post 302606450 by methyl on Sunday 11th of March 2012 02:19:50 PM
Old 03-11-2012
Please post you Operating System and version and what Shell you are using and details of your mail software.

It would really help to know if mail from the command line normally works to the given email address and what "mailx" syntax is used to send a normal mail.

This code fragment looks basically sound but is difficult to diagnose without knowing the values of the variables (obviously with anything confidential blotted with X's).

Bit concerned about the "uuencode" statements because they do not output to stdout.

Maybe you need:
Code:
cat filename | uuencode filename.csv

Or even:
Code:
ux2dos filename | uuencode filename.csv

On some systems ux2dos is called unix2dos. It just converts unix text files to Microsoft's text file format.

Ps. The stray right-brace suggests that this is a function. We really need to see the whole script, not a fragment.
Last edited by methyl; 03-11-2012 at 03:53 PM.. Reason: typos, errors and layout problems
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUSE

ocf_heartbeat_mailto

OCF_HEARTBEAT_MAILTO(7) 					OCF resource agents					   OCF_HEARTBEAT_MAILTO(7)

NAME

       ocf_heartbeat_MailTo - Notifies recipients by email in the event of resource takeover

SYNOPSIS

       MailTo [start | stop | status | monitor | meta-data | validate-all]

DESCRIPTION

       This is a resource agent for MailTo. It sends email to a sysadmin whenever a takeover occurs.

SUPPORTED PARAMETERS

       email
	   The email address of sysadmin. (required, string, no default)

       subject
	   The subject of the email. (optional, string, no default)

SUPPORTED ACTIONS

       This resource agent supports the following actions (operations):

       start
	   Starts the resource. Suggested minimum timeout: 10.

       stop
	   Stops the resource. Suggested minimum timeout: 10.

       status
	   Performs a status check. Suggested minimum timeout: 10. Suggested interval: 10.

       monitor
	   Performs a detailed status check. Suggested minimum timeout: 10. Suggested interval: 10.

       meta-data
	   Retrieves resource agent metadata (internal use only). Suggested minimum timeout: 5.

       validate-all
	   Performs a validation of the resource configuration. Suggested minimum timeout: 5.

EXAMPLE

       The following is an example configuration for a MailTo resource using the crm(8) shell:

	   primitive example_MailTo ocf:heartbeat:MailTo 
	     params 
	       email=string 
	     op monitor depth="0" timeout="10" interval="10"

SEE ALSO

       http://www.linux-ha.org/wiki/MailTo_(resource_agent)

AUTHOR

       Linux-HA contributors (see the resource agent source for information about individual authors)

resource-agents 1.0.3						    07/05/2010						   OCF_HEARTBEAT_MAILTO(7)
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