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 at 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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20071102/a200bf9d/attachment-0005.sig>