Re: Wierd problem with a script that calls nail

[brian <Brian_dorling@t-online.de>]

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











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