Mailing A File On Tch Servers

[drtravix]

I've worked out a shell script which collects various information, parses it a bit with grep and a few other standard commands, and spits out a file called 'error.log' which, if it contains anything, needs to be e-mailed to an address of my choosing along with the unparsed file. Both files are plain text, and don't need to be actually attached to the message - they just need to be printed in the body.

 

I've played around with sendmail a bit, tried piping in my file with the 'proper' header, but can't quite get it to shoot the e-mail off.

 

Does anyone know a good way to do this, or even better have a small code snippet to show how to do this? I know it's fairly simple, I'm probably just missing something small.

 

Thanks for any help.

[drtravix]

Oh, I also tried to create a file that contains:

 

===================

To: addr@****

From: addr2@****

Subject: My subject here

 

Here is test data

 

===================

 

And then running:

 

/usr/sbin/sendmail -t < testfile

 

It doesn't give any error, but I also don't receive the e-mail.

[drtravix]

Solved. I just started to get the e-mails... it appears that it takes an hour or two to work it's way through sendmail for some reason. Seems to work halfway decent.