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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:
> >> 
> >> 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 
> >
> > try adding some logging to the script at the beginning and the end to a
> > a file.
> 
>  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.

At a command line:

   script
   echo "$2" | \
      nail -v -s Slug1:"$1"  brian_dorling@t-online.de # <-- replace
                                                       # $1,2


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