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I have this Legato application which generates a file and then it pipes it to mailx.

cat << savelog.txt | mailx -s "Saverpt `date +"%c`" myemail@xxx.com

The "savelog.txt does get created and is owned by root and other group, but yet will not email using mailx to myemail@xxx.com.

Mailx emails me from "root" instead of the application user and only emails the "Subject Line" and not the text file. Can someone assist why this is happening.

When I am logged in as myself (userme) and run the script from the command line I get the email fromt userme@xxx.com and the contents of the file in the email. So what is different.

I don't know why you're doing a cat << savelog.txt but remove the "<<"'s. Just use

Code:

cat savelog.txt | mailx -s "Saverpt `date +"%c`" myemail@xxx.com

or

Code:

mailx -s "Saverpt `date +"%c`" myemail@xxx.com < savelog.txt

Carl

Th application is running a report and the output of the report is being catted to the savetext.log and then being mailed.

cat << pathname/savtext.log | mailx

The savelog.txt{date} is dated, so It is immediately emailed.

my guess is you have a path problem ... when you run the script manually, you probably cd'd to the directory where the log file exists at ... however, the automated job probably does not know where the log file is and cannot redirect it to cat so it cannot send anything aside from the subject line ... confirm the path requirements and you should be okay ...