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Re: email notifications when users login



Dave Carrigan wrote:
On Monday 18 September 2006 15:08, Marco Müller wrote:

IFS="
"
nail -s "Login to <put Servername here> by $USER" root < .
$


where 'root' is the user this Mail is being mailed to. Nail is a mailer
like mail and expects a dot to commit EOM.

Just to nitpick, but your syntax of "nail ... <." is not sending a dot to nail. It's redirecting the contents of the file ".", which is the current directory. If you want to send a dot to a command you should do

echo . | nail -s ...

Thank you for that hint.
I don't even know how I came to that idea of "< .", not strangely enough that worked for me.

I've changed that, all because of the elegance ;)


Ciao!
Marco



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