On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 03:48:24PM +0100, brian wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > >On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 01:49:12PM +0100, Brian wrote: > >>Hi, > >>I have a Debian Sarge box and an NSLU2 (Unslung) that I have setup to > >>send me mails when they startup, reboot, and do various other things, > >>they use Nail to sned the emails to me. I tried to setup my mothers PC > >>to do the same, no way I can get it to work. If I run the scripts by > >>hand all works OK. > >>So I have a script /usr/sbin/mailtext.sh, that calls Nail with 2 > >>parameters. In RC.0, RC.3 and RC.5 is have symbolic links to a script > >>in /etc/init.d that calls mailtext.sh. > >> > >>Mailtext gets called, and I have inserted logger statements in the > >>script, those messages appear in my /var/log/messages, so I know that my > >>script is called when it should be. > >> > >>But, I never get the mails. If I run the script by hand as root then I > >>get the mail. So I thought maybe something else needs to be started > >>beforehand, but this runs as last in rc.3 amd rc.5, so network is up by > >>then. > >> > >>Just wondering how to debug this further, how can I get any error > >>messages from nail into my logs? All I tried up till now doesn't seem to > >>work. > >> > >>Cheers Brian > >> > >try adding some logging to the script at the beginning and the end to a > >a file. > >echo "starting my script" >> mylogfile.log > >cheers, > >Kev > Kev, > > just FYI here is the script: > > mailtext.sh > #!/bin/sh > set -x > /bin/logger "/opt/sbin/mailtext Sending "$1" to Brian" > > echo "$2" | nail -v -s Slug1:"$1" brian_dorling@t-online.de > > That gives plenty of output, just can't figure out a way to capture it yet. > > Cheers Brian echo "$2" | nail -v -s Slug1:"$1" brian_dorling@t-online.de >> mylogfile 2>&1 -Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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