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 doecho . | 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