On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 04:39:32PM -0600, Mark Snyder alleged:
I am doing a md5sum to verify nightly transfer of files between servers and want to email the results to support.
Everything works fine except reading the contents of the check file into mail.
Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated.
#!/bin/bash cd /bak md5sum -b `date '+%m-%d-%y'`.tgz > `date '+%m-%d-%y'`.ver diff -s `date '+%m-%d-%y'`.md5 `date '+%m-%d-%y'`.ver > `date '+%m-%d-%y'`.chk #outfile=`date '+%m-%d-%y'`.chk #setup name of file to read into mail mail -s 'file verify' me@mymailaddr.com <<MAIL_IN ~r `date '+%m-%d-%y'`.chk
. MAIL_IN
exit
entering the same mail commands from a command prompt works.
First, stop running `date` over and over. Run it once at the top and set a variable.
Second, what is actually going wrong? Is there an error message?
Is this a cronjob? If so, then don't bother using 'mail'; just echo to stdout and let cron handle the mailing.