I need to setup mail confimations about the cron jobs executed the previous night stright into my inbox.
I am using mailx in the script which the cron executes. I get errors like,
/usr/bin/mailx -s log report -c shankie@vtech.org -f /u06/oslog/prod.log
The flags you gave are used only when sending mail.
Where am i missing the link?
> /usr/bin/mailx -s log report -c shankie@vtech.org -f
> /u06/oslog/prod.log
> The flags you gave are used only when sending mail.
Showing exactly how the mail line appears in the script rather than just the error would probably be helpful.
But I don't see any quotes around your subject and I'm not sure why you're using the -f flag. '-f' specifies what mailbox you want to open for reading.
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Darren
I dont see any errors in the log. I pasted the lines from script but it did not show up here.
This is how i exactly place them in my shell script.
/usr/bin/mailx -s "log report" -c "shankie@vtech.org" -f "/u06/oslog/prod.log"
Options listed in man pages is so confusing. so i should not use -f for the file to send in mail, and as below:
mailx -s "log report" -c "shankie@vtech.org" "/u06/oslog/prod.log"
> I get this error when i execute from command line.
>
> The flags you gave are used only when sending mail.
> Usage: mailx -eiIUdFntBNHvV~ -T FILE -u USER -h hops
> -r address
>-s SUBJECT -f FILE users
> should use only in a script file.
Showing the error doesn't help much in this case. You also need to show what you are doing. Post the actual command you are executing.
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Darren
Confirming once again to the user community.
I need a mail confirmation to my outlook inbox for the job completed by the shell script scheduled in cron. For this i use mailx and the command as given above.
I have scheduled this job(cron) which runs at 10pm every night.
Can some one brief me what is the difference between mailx and sendmail?
Thanks!
> mailx -s "log report" -c "shankie@vtech.org" < "/u06/oslog/prod.log"
-c is for someone to be cc'd on the message. You need to supply a recipient (or multiple recipents) besides the cc list.
If shankie@vtech.org is the only recipient, ditch the '-c'.
(And while I saw the error message post, I misinterpreted your earlier post with the command line in it. Sorry about that.)
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Darren
> Can some one brief me what is the difference between
> mailx and sendmail?
mailx is a local utility that tries to deliver a message and a recipient list to a mailer. It's what you should be running to send a text message.
Sendmail is a Mail Transport Agent (MTA) which runs to deliver mail on the request of programs. Sendmail (or some other MTA) needs to be at least minimally configured so that mailx can work.
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Darren
