mailx in script

[Frank Murphy]

Every time azureus restarts (crashes out),
I have a script to send an email.

#!/bin/bash
mailx -s"Azureus has restarted" [e-mail] \n
"It's probably crashed again."

Put in the new line as was getting,
a second mail with:
Null message body; hope that's ok

But, now am getting no mail.

The script is hooked into my vuze.service
ExecStartPost=/etc/scripts/azrestart # script has been chmod+x

[Reindl Harald]

Am 12.06.2013 09:27, schrieb Frank Murphy:
> Every time azureus restarts (crashes out),
> I have a script to send an email.
>
> #!/bin/bash
> mailx -s"Azureus has restarted" [e-mail] \n
> "It's probably crashed again."
>
> Put in the new line as was getting,
> a second mail with:
> Null message body; hope that's ok
>
> But, now am getting no mail

well is your MTA running?
is "[e-mail]" at the same machine and if not is /eta/aliases configured?
what says /var/log/maillog

mailx does nothing else than invoke the "sendmail" binary shipped with sendmail/postfix/exim

[Frank Murphy]

On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:12:52 +0200
Reindl Harald  wrote:
> well is your MTA running?
> is "[e-mail]" at the same machine and if not is /eta/aliases

exim is running,
[e-mail] , is a different box, is set up in /etc/aliases,
newaliases was run.
> configured? what says /var/log/maillog

Does not appear to exist,
but have /var/log/exim/exim.log and ~/exim/panic.log
neither show anything

Maybe "touch /var/log/maillog"

[Reindl Harald]

Am 12.06.2013 10:19, schrieb Frank Murphy:
> > what says /var/log/maillog
>
> Does not appear to exist

i am a postfix user
> but have /var/log/exim/exim.log and ~/exim/panic.log
> neither show anything

than most likely nothing has happened
did you test "mail whatever address" *outside a shell script*?
> Maybe "touch /var/log/maillog"

no - how should this help if exim is using his own log-files?

[Frank Murphy]

On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:12:52 +0200
Reindl Harald  wrote:

Apologies for re-arranging
Harald said something which got me thinking 1:

1:
> mailx does nothing else than invoke the "sendmail" binary shipped
> with sendmail/postfix/exim
> Am 12.06.2013 09:27, schrieb Frank Murphy:
> > #!/bin/bash
> > mailx -s"Azureus has restarted" [e-mail] \n
> > "It's probably crashed again."

Changed this to:
echo "It's probably crashed again." | mailx -s "Azureus has restarted"
[e-mail]

Now working, with no second "null message ..."

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am 12.06.2013 09:27, schrieb Frank Murphy:
> Every time azureus restarts (crashes out),
> I have a script to send an email.
>
> #!/bin/bash
> mailx -s"Azureus has restarted" [e-mail] \n
> "It's probably crashed again."

echo "It's probably crashed again." | mail -s "Azureus has restarted"
[e-mail]
> Put in the new line as was getting,
> a second mail with:
> Null message body; hope that's ok
>
> But, now am getting no mail.
>
> The script is hooked into my vuze.service
> ExecStartPost=/etc/scripts/azrestart # script has been chmod+x

Alexander

[Frank Murphy]

On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:27:35 +0200
Alexander Dalloz  wrote:
> Am 12.06.2013 09:27, schrieb Frank Murphy:
> > #!/bin/bash
> > mailx -s"Azureus has restarted" [e-mail] \n
> > "It's probably crashed again."
>
> echo "It's probably crashed again." | mail -s "Azureus has
> restarted" [e-mail]

Thanks Alexander,
That's what has worked

[Rick Stevens]

On 06/12/2013 01:27 AM, Alexander Dalloz issued this missive:
> Am 12.06.2013 09:27, schrieb Frank Murphy:
> > Every time azureus restarts (crashes out),
> > I have a script to send an email.
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> > mailx -s"Azureus has restarted" [e-mail] \n
> > "It's probably crashed again."
>
> echo "It's probably crashed again." | mail -s "Azureus has restarted"
> [e-mail]

Or:

mailx -s "Azureus has restarted" [e-mail] <<-EOF
<tab>It's crashed again.
EOF

("<tab>" is a real TAB character).
Put whatever you want before "EOF", indented with tabs for appearance'
sake. For details look at the "Here Documents" part of "man bash". Very
useful.
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