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 -- | .''`. == 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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