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# 1  
Old 10-18-2009
How to mail the output of a command in AIX
Hi,

I have mastered how to mail to Windows in AIX.

Can anyone tell me how I would mail the output command df -g to an email?

I want to set a job in cron to mail df -g as the contents of a mail.


Any ideas?

Thanks

John
# 2  
Old 10-18-2009
Hi.

Code:
df -g | mailx -s "subject" someone@somewhere ...

or

Code:
cat << ! | mailx .....
Here is a report of disk usage:
$(df -g)
!

or

Code:
df -g | uuencode disk_usage.txt | mailx ...

or

Code:
cat << ! | mailx ...
Attached is a report of disk usage.
$(df -g | uuencode disk_usage.txt)
!

# 3  
Old 10-18-2009
mail command
Hi Thanks for the speedy reply...

How do I mail from another user and the mail will only send when I exit out of the telnet session?

Any ideas?
# 4  
Old 10-18-2009
Quote:
I want to set a job in cron to mail df -g as the contents of a mail.
Hmm.


I don't know how you'd send the mail "from another user" apart from using sudo (or su if you're root).

And as I'm not at an AIX server now, I couldn't begin to tell you how to "automate" sending the email when you exit your terminal.

Why would you want to do either?
# 5  
Old 10-18-2009
mail command
Hi,

As I am doing it from a cron job I wont be able to do a ctrl-d.

It doesnt matter what user it is mailed from I was being curious.

The whole reason I want to do this is so I can recieve the mail each week to just keep an eye on the sizes so they dont fill up.

Thanks
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