Re: email notifications when users login

[Marco Müller <macxs@gmx.net>]

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