On Saturday 06 July 2013 03:04:40 Jean-Louis Martineau did opine: > On 07/05/2013 08:55 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 05 July 2013 08:33:38 Jean-Louis Martineau did opine: > >> Amanda run a command to send an email, it the command works, then > >> amanda works. > >> > >> What is the command amanda is running? you can find it in the > >> amreport debug file. > > > > Interesting: > > [...] > > Fri Jul 5 02:08:01 2013: thd-0x975dd00: amreport: invoking mail app: > > /usr/bin/Mail -s The Coyote Den STRANGE: AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR July > > 5, 2013 g...@coyote.coyote.den > > Fri Jul 5 02:08:01 2013: thd-0x975dd00: amreport: error: the mailer > > '/usr/bin/Mail' is not an executable program. > > [...] > > > >> Run the same command on the command line, did it works? > > > > /usr/bin/Mail did not exist, but is now a softlink to mail. > > > > However, by copy/pasting the above to an amanda cli, it is not workable: > > Cannot parse address `STRANGE:' (while expanding `STRANGE:'): Format > > of > > > > RFC822 object is bad > > Don't blindly cut&paste, you must add quote where needed: > > /usr/bin/Mail -s 'The Coyote Den STRANGE: AMANDA MAIL REPORT FOR July 5, > 2013' g...@coyote.coyote.den > > > I'll see if fixing the "Mail" softlink makes it work tomorrow morning.
And it did, I got 2 emails from the backup, one was my scripts log, the other an expanded version of the printout synopsis. So I believe I can lay this to rest. Thank you very much. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! My views <http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml> I didn't know he was dead; I thought he was British. A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens.
