mailx

pramka · 05-01-2008, 02:56 PM

Can't get mailx to work. trying to send a mail to root@localhost that Scriptx was executed ..
mailx -u root@localhost "Scriptx was executed"
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong
..Thanks

colucix · 05-01-2008, 03:05 PM

Check the syntax. It should be

Code:

mailx -s "Scriptx was executed" root@localhost

then you're expected to type the text to include in the mail body and press Ctrl-D. If you want to put this in a shell script, you can use a "here document" like this

Code:

mailx -s "Scriptx was executed" root@localhost << EOT
some text here
some text here
some text here
EOT

pramka · 05-01-2008, 04:02 PM

mailx -s root@localhost << EOT
Subject: Script executed
Can u see this here
Can u see this here
EOT

Does not want to work

colucix · 05-01-2008, 04:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pramka

mailx -s root@localhost

The -s option is to specify the subject on the command line. You have to strip it out. Look carefully at the mailx manual page.