Emailing files from the root to an email address

nootkan · 10-29-2009, 12:32 PM

I was wondering what the command was to send a file that I saved in my /tmp/ directory to an email address as an attachment. I tried using this:

Quote:

mail -s "rkhunter debug" -a /tmp/rkhunter-debug.GZqGg25243 address@myemail.com

I recieved this response and I'm not sure which option is the right one to use as none of the recommended ones worked either.

Quote:

mail: invalid option -- a
Usage: mail [-iInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] to-addr ...
[-- sendmail-options ...]
mail [-iInNv] -f [name]
mail [-iInNv] [-u user]

Thanks in advance.

repo · 10-29-2009, 12:56 PM

try

Code:

mail address@myemail.com -s "rkhunter debug" < /tmp/rkhunter-debug.GZqGg25243

bathory · 10-29-2009, 01:07 PM

Replace "mail" with "mutt" in your command and it should work. That's because some mail implementations do not have the -a option.
If you don't have mutt you can easily install it.

Regards

nootkan · 10-29-2009, 02:14 PM

Thanks repo, that worked for me. I looked at installing Mutt as an option also.